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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-02 16:46:52 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-02 16:46:52 -0700
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@@ -868,6 +868,9 @@ inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing.</p></div>
--edit
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
+-e
+</dt>
+<dt class="hdlist1">
--no-edit
</dt>
<dd>
@@ -876,7 +879,7 @@ inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing.</p></div>
further edit the auto-generated merge message, so that the user
can explain and justify the merge. The <code>--no-edit</code> option can be
used to accept the auto-generated message (this is generally
- discouraged). The <code>--edit</code> option is still useful if you are
+ discouraged). The <code>--edit</code> (or <code>-e</code>) option is still useful if you are
giving a draft message with the <code>-m</code> option from the command line
and want to edit it in the editor.
</p>
@@ -1308,9 +1311,9 @@ is often useful.</td>
</li>
<li>
<p>
-A parameter &lt;ref&gt; without a colon is equivalent to
- &lt;ref&gt;: when pulling/fetching, so it merges &lt;ref&gt; into the current
- branch without storing the remote branch anywhere locally
+A parameter &lt;ref&gt; without a colon merges &lt;ref&gt; into the current
+ branch,
+ and updates the remote-tracking branches (if any).
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
@@ -1366,6 +1369,11 @@ rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This syntax is only recognized if there are no slashes before the
+first colon. This helps differentiate a local path that contains a
+colon. For example the local path <code>foo:bar</code> could be specified as an
+absolute path or <code>./foo:bar</code> to avoid being misinterpreted as an ssh
+url.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:</p></div>
<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>