Documentation: mention ORIG_HEAD in am, merge, and rebase

Merge has always set ORIG_HEAD but never mentioned it, while we
recently added it to am and rebase.  These facts should be reflected
in the documentation.

git-reset also sets ORIG_HEAD, but that fact is already mentioned in
the very first example so no changes were needed there.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-am.txt b/Documentation/git-am.txt
index 3863eebcef8533de78adf8733b580f146ac66ec4..88ca5f118340f37012c64c8c0395906ef1414894 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-am.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-am.txt
@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ directory exists, so if you decide to start over from scratch,
 run `rm -f -r .dotest` before running the command with mailbox
 names.
 
+Before any patches are applied, ORIG_HEAD is set to the tip of the
+current branch.  This is useful if you have problems with multiple
+commits, like running 'git am' on the wrong branch or an error in the
+commits that is more easily fixed by changing the mailbox (e.g.
+errors in the "From:" lines).
+
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 62f99b5f3b8991c93d0f2e06cd382312069bccaf..019e4ca8f503e146814bf7b9f6e2ef2920d940e2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ Otherwise, merge will refuse to do any harm to your repository
 (that is, it may fetch the objects from remote, and it may even
 update the local branch used to keep track of the remote branch
 with `git pull remote rbranch:lbranch`, but your working tree,
-`.git/HEAD` pointer and index file are left intact).
+`.git/HEAD` pointer and index file are left intact).  In addition,
+merge always sets `.git/ORIG_HEAD` to the original state of HEAD so
+a problematic merge can be removed by using `git reset ORIG_HEAD`.
 
 You may have local modifications in the working tree files.  In
 other words, 'git-diff' is allowed to report changes.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
index f3459c7de7c9629f2abfdb684a359bb264ea82ed..e30f6a6982a8d9ee48c6a7d46fa435c7aee773af 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ of commits that would be shown by `git log <upstream>..HEAD`.
 
 The current branch is reset to <upstream>, or <newbase> if the
 --onto option was supplied.  This has the exact same effect as
-`git reset --hard <upstream>` (or <newbase>).
+`git reset --hard <upstream>` (or <newbase>).  ORIG_HEAD is set
+to point at the tip of the branch before the reset.
 
 The commits that were previously saved into the temporary area are
 then reapplied to the current branch, one by one, in order. Note that