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[PATCH] git-merge: mutually match SYNOPSIS and "usage".

From
Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 7, 2014, 11:54 UTC
Message-ID
<87wq8cnla9.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

SYNOPSIS section of the git-merge manual page had outdated explicit list of options.

"usage" returned by 'git merge -h' didn't have "-m <msg>" that is one of essential distinctions between obsolete invocation form and the recent one.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/git-merge.txt | 6 ++----
 builtin/merge.c             | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index cf2c374..e24a1d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -9,10 +9,8 @@ git-merge - Join two or more development histories together
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [--[no-]edit]
-	[-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>] [-S[<key-id>]]
-	[--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...]
-'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>...
+'git merge' [options] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...]
+'git merge' [options] <msg> HEAD <commit>...
 'git merge' --abort
 
 DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/builtin/merge.c b/builtin/merge.c
index dff043d..086502f 100644
--- a/builtin/merge.c
+++ b/builtin/merge.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ struct strategy {
 };
 
 static const char * const builtin_merge_usage[] = {
-	N_("git merge [options] [<commit>...]"),
+	N_("git merge [options] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...]"),
 	N_("git merge [options] <msg> HEAD <commit>"),
 	N_("git merge --abort"),
 	NULL
-- 
1.9.3
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