The scissors line is included after the human commit message. Therefore, saying "scissors will be prepended" was incorrect. Update to say "appended" which is more correct. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> --- Notes: Note that this can be squashed into 6f06b6aeef (merge: add scissors line on merge conflict, 2019-01-22) if it makes life easier. Documentation/merge-options.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt index c2a263ba74..6fff647409 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ set to `no` at the beginning of them. This option determines how the merge message will be cleaned up before commiting or being passed on. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more details. In addition, if the '<mode>' is given a value of `scissors`, - scissors will be prepended to MERGE_MSG before being passed on in the case - of a merge conflict. + scissors will be appended to MERGE_MSG before being passed on in the + case of a merge conflict. --ff:: When the merge resolves as a fast-forward, only update the branch -- 2.21.0.370.g4fdb13b891