changeset 15620:73faa2664909

bookmarks: clarify help for use of merge and update
author Kevin Bullock <kbullock@ringworld.org>
date Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:23:13 -0600
parents 6c8573dd1b6b
children 013688350c7d
files mercurial/commands.py
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Dec 07 11:23:01 2011 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Dec 07 11:23:13 2011 -0600
@@ -726,10 +726,10 @@
              rename=None, inactive=False):
     '''track a line of development with movable markers
 
-    Bookmarks are pointers to certain commits that move when
-    committing. Bookmarks are local. They can be renamed, copied and
-    deleted. It is possible to use bookmark names in :hg:`merge` and
-    :hg:`update` to merge and update respectively to a given bookmark.
+    Bookmarks are pointers to certain commits that move when committing.
+    Bookmarks are local. They can be renamed, copied and deleted. It is
+    possible to use :hg:`merge NAME` to merge from a given bookmark, and
+    :hg:`update NAME` to update to a given bookmark.
 
     You can use :hg:`bookmark NAME` to set a bookmark on the working
     directory's parent revision with the given name. If you specify