diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-clone.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-push.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-config.txt | 4 |
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt index 6d98ef3d2a..7fefdb0384 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt @@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. `--no-single-branch` is given to fetch the histories near the tips of all branches. Further fetches into the resulting repository will only update the - remote tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the + remote-tracking branch for the branch this option was used for the initial cloning. If the HEAD at the remote did not point at any - branch when `--single-branch` clone was made, no remote tracking + branch when `--single-branch` clone was made, no remote-tracking branch is created. --recursive:: diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 20f9228511..d34ea3c50b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ commit or stash your changes before running 'git merge'. more than two parents (affectionately called an Octopus merge). + If no commit is given from the command line, and if `merge.defaultToUpstream` -configuration variable is set, merge the remote tracking branches +configuration variable is set, merge the remote-tracking branches that the current branch is configured to use as its upstream. See also the configuration section of this manual page. diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt index 22d2580129..fe46c4258a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ useful if you write an alias or script around 'git push'. --recurse-submodules=check|on-demand:: Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be - pushed are available on a remote tracking branch. If 'check' is + pushed are available on a remote-tracking branch. If 'check' is used git will verify that all submodule commits that changed in the revisions to be pushed are available on at least one remote of the submodule. If any commits are missing the push will be diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt index 861bd6f553..9bb4956ccd 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ merge.conflictstyle:: merge.defaultToUpstream:: If merge is called without any commit argument, merge the upstream branches configured for the current branch by using their last - observed values stored in their remote tracking branches. + observed values stored in their remote-tracking branches. The values of the `branch.<current branch>.merge` that name the branches at the remote named by `branch.<current branch>.remote` are consulted, and then they are mapped via `remote.<remote>.fetch` - to their corresponding remote tracking branches, and the tips of + to their corresponding remote-tracking branches, and the tips of these tracking branches are merged. merge.ff:: |