Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
README: point to Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Document merge.branchdesc configuration variable

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
index 32aff954a2b2f95a61b39b8d08fb0482724400bb..3a0f55ec8e273545af3a92a9b886511ac79ba73c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ OPTIONS
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------
 
+merge.branchdesc::
+       In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
+       the branch description text associated with them.  Defaults
+       to false.
+
 merge.log::
        In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at
        most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the

diff --git a/README b/README
index 67cfeb2016b24df1cb406c18145efd399f6a1792..d2690ec8dc6e5f054c33a5f3b4c26f6ad038706d 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ including full documentation and Git related tools.
 
 The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git
 mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature
-requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org. To subscribe
-to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to
-majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at
-http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival sites.
+requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org (read
+Documentation/SubmittingPatches for instructions on patch submission).
+To subscribe to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in
+the body to majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are
+available at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival
+sites.
 
 The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in
 git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and