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[PATCH] Document the --no-commit flag

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Nov 4, 2005, 14:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20051104145505.6586.32084.stgit@machine.or.cz>
Also add the reference to merge and fetch options in git-pull's synopsis.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
---
 Documentation/git-merge.txt |    6 +++++-
 Documentation/git-pull.txt  |    2 +-
 git-pull.sh                 |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index 8c9c4d8..4174da9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-merge - Grand Unified Merge Driver
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-merge' [-n] [-s <strategy>]... <msg> <head> <remote> <remote>...
+'git-merge' [-n] [--no-commit] [-s <strategy>]... <msg> <head> <remote> <remote>...
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ OPTIONS
 -n::
 	Do not show diffstat at the end of the merge.
 
+--no-commit::
+	Do not commit right away - it just does the merge and lets you commit
+	manually after you inspect the changes done.
+
 -s <strategy>::
 	use that merge strategy; can be given more than once to
 	specify them in the order they should be tried.  If
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pull.txt b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
index cef4c0a..a46d6b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pull.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pull.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-pull - Pull and merge from another r
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-pull' <repository> <refspec>...
+'git-pull' [merge_options] [fetch_options] <repository> <refspec>...
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh
index 9601627..e23d4f5 100755
--- a/git-pull.sh
+++ b/git-pull.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 . git-sh-setup || die "Not a git archive"
 
 usage () {
-    die "git pull [-n] [-s strategy]... <repo> <head>..."
+    die "git pull [-n] [--no-commit] [-s strategy]... <repo> <head>..."
 }
 
 strategy_args= no_summary= no_commit=
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