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[PATCH v3 5/5] fmt-merge-msg: Update fmt-merge-msg and merge-config documentation

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 20, 2010, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID
<1282331702-5115-6-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1282331702-5115-1-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Update the documentation of fmt-merge-msg and merge-config to reflect the fact that `merge.log` can either be a boolean or integer option now, instead of just a boolean.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt |   20 +++++++++-----------
 Documentation/merge-config.txt      |    8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
index 78c8a6d..4149a1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fmt-merge-msg.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ git-fmt-merge-msg - Produce a merge commit message
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log | --no-log] <$GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
-'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log | --no-log] -F <file>
+'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] < $GIT_DIR/FETCH_HEAD
+'git fmt-merge-msg' [-m <message>] [--log[=<n>] | --no-log] -F <file>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -24,19 +24,14 @@ automatically invoking 'git merge'.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 
---log::
+--log=<n>::
 	In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
-	one-line descriptions from the actual commits that are being
-	merged.
-
 --no-log::
 	Do not list one-line descriptions from the actual commits being
 	merged.
 
---summary::
---no-summary::
-	Synonyms to --log and --no-log; these are deprecated and will be
-	removed in the future.
+	one-line descriptions from at most <n> actual commits that are
+	being merged.
 
 -m <message>::
 --message <message>::
@@ -53,7 +48,10 @@ CONFIGURATION
 
 merge.log::
 	Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly
-	merge commit messages. False by default.
+	created merge commit messages.  Optionally, an integer can be
+	used to specify how many merged commits to summarize (at
+	maxmium) in the merge message. Specifying "true" is equivalent
+	to specifying 20. Defaults to false.
 
 SEE ALSO
 --------
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-config.txt b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
index b72f533..f63f7cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-config.txt
@@ -7,8 +7,12 @@ merge.conflictstyle::
 	marker and the original text before the `=======` marker.
 
 merge.log::
-	Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created
-	merge commit messages. False by default.
+	Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly
+	created merge commit messages.  Optionally, an integer can be
+	used to specify how many merged commits to summarize (at
+	maxmium) in the merge message. Specifying "true" is equivalent
+	to specifying 20.  Defaults to false. See also
+	linkgit:git-fmt-merge-msg[1].
 
 merge.renameLimit::
 	The number of files to consider when performing rename detection
-- 
1.7.2.2.409.gdbb11.dirty
Previous: Ramkumar Ramachandra
Message 15 of 15 in “fmt-merge-msg improvements”
  1. 0/5 fmt-merge-msg improvementsRamkumar Ramachandra, Aug 20, 2010
  2. 1/5 parse-options: Allow PARSE_OPT_NOARG in integer argumentsRamkumar Ramachandra, Aug 20, 2010
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 20, 2010
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 20, 2010
  5. Jonathan NiederAug 21, 2010
  6. 2/5 fmt-merge-msg: Make the number of log entries in commit message configurableRamkumar Ramachandra, Aug 20, 2010
  7. Jonathan NiederAug 21, 2010
  8. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 21, 2010
  9. 3/5 fmt-merge-msg: Update command line options to sync with config optionsRamkumar Ramachandra, Aug 20, 2010
  10. Jonathan NiederAug 21, 2010
  11. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 21, 2010
  12. 4/5 fmt-merge-msg: Remove deprecated --summary optionRamkumar Ramachandra, Aug 20, 2010
  13. Jonathan NiederAug 21, 2010
  14. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 21, 2010
  15. 5/5 fmt-merge-msg: Update fmt-merge-msg and merge-config documentationRamkumar Ramachandra, Aug 20, 2010

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