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 f920c04cc01e1d8a8675876adcb747f91ed86f30..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
+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 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`
+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>.
@@ -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,