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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-worktree.txt2
4 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt
index c648c128e..919f3eb3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ Fixes since v2.15
* Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the
"--copy" option of "git branch".
- * When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
+ * When "git rebase" prepared a mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened
to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has
been corrected.
@@ -441,6 +441,15 @@ Fixes since v2.15
credential helper fail.
(merge 4c267f2ae3 jd/fix-strbuf-add-urlencode-bytes later to maint).
+ * "git rebase -p -X<option>" did not propagate the option properly
+ down to underlying merge strategy backend.
+ (merge dd6fb0053c js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is
+ dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current
+ HEAD, which has been fixed.
+ (merge f309e8e768 ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
(merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
@@ -467,3 +476,4 @@ Fixes since v2.15
(merge 3f824e91c8 jk/test-suite-tracing later to maint).
(merge 1feb061701 db/doc-config-section-names-with-bs later to maint).
(merge 74dea0e13c jh/memihash-opt later to maint).
+ (merge 2e9fdc795c ma/bisect-leakfix later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 3ef30922e..a1d0feca3 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ not a text/plain, it's something else.
Send your patch with "To:" set to the mailing list, with "cc:" listing
people who are involved in the area you are touching (the output from
-+git blame _$path_+ and +git shortlog {litdd}no-merges _$path_+ would help to
+`git blame $path` and `git shortlog --no-merges $path` would help to
identify them), to solicit comments and reviews.
:1: footnote:[The current maintainer: gitster@pobox.com]
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 9d1586b95..743af97b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -469,6 +469,12 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
+
Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude. E.g.
`--diff-filter=ad` excludes added and deleted paths.
++
+Note that not all diffs can feature all types. For instance, diffs
+from the index to the working tree can never have Added entries
+(because the set of paths included in the diff is limited by what is in
+the index). Similarly, copied and renamed entries cannot appear if
+detection for those types is disabled.
-S<string>::
Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of
diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
index f850e8ffb..41585f535 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ OPTIONS
--[no-]guess-remote::
With `worktree add <path>`, without `<commit-ish>`, instead
of creating a new branch from HEAD, if there exists a tracking
- branch in exactly one remote matching the basename of `<path>,
+ branch in exactly one remote matching the basename of `<path>`,
base the new branch on the remote-tracking branch, and mark
the remote-tracking branch as "upstream" from the new branch.
+