git-cvsimport.txt: fix '-M' description.

[git.git] / Documentation / git-branch.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index d3f21c797596e9dc633293e0cca4a172940bd4af..7e8874acaacbd6990ccaf66d5bddbff6e4c1e5ba 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ Note that this will create the new branch, but it will not switch the
 working tree to it; use "git checkout <newbranch>" to switch to the
 new branch.
 
-When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git can setup the
-branch so that gitlink:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
-remote branch.  If this behavior is desired, it is possible to make it
-the default using the global `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration
-flag.  Otherwise, it can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
+When a local branch is started off a remote branch, git sets up the
+branch so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from that
+remote branch.  If this behavior is not desired, it is possible to
+disable it using the global `branch.autosetupmerge` configuration
+flag.  That setting can be overridden by using the `--track`
 and `--no-track` options.
 
 With a '-m' or '-M' option, <oldbranch> will be renamed to <newbranch>.
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ has a reflog then the reflog will also be deleted.
 
 Use -r together with -d to delete remote-tracking branches. Note, that it
 only makes sense to delete remote-tracking branches if they no longer exist
-in remote repository or if gitlink:git-fetch[1] was configured not to fetch
-them again. See also 'prune' subcommand of gitlink:git-remote[1] for way to
+in remote repository or if linkgit:git-fetch[1] was configured not to fetch
+them again. See also 'prune' subcommand of linkgit:git-remote[1] for way to
 clean up all obsolete remote-tracking branches.
 
 
@@ -108,10 +108,11 @@ OPTIONS
        Set up configuration so that git-pull will automatically
        retrieve data from the remote branch.  Use this if you always
        pull from the same remote branch into the new branch, or if you
-       don't want to use "git pull <repository> <refspec>" explicitly.  Set the
-       branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to true if you
+       don't want to use "git pull <repository> <refspec>" explicitly.
+       This behavior is the default.  Set the
+       branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable to false if you
        want git-checkout and git-branch to always behave as if
-       '--track' were given.
+       '--no-track' were given.
 
 --no-track::
        When a branch is created off a remote branch,
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <branchname>::
        The name of the branch to create or delete.
        The new branch name must pass all checks defined by
-       gitlink:git-check-ref-format[1].  Some of these checks
+       linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1].  Some of these checks
        may restrict the characters allowed in a branch name.
 
 <start-point>::
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ $ git branch -D test                                    <2>
 +
 <1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man". Next 'fetch' or
 'pull' will create them again unless you configure them not to. See
-gitlink:git-fetch[1].
+linkgit:git-fetch[1].
 <2> Delete "test" branch even if the "master" branch (or whichever branch is
 currently checked out) does not have all commits from test branch.
 
@@ -187,4 +188,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite