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| author |  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2011-05-02 23:02:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2011-05-02 23:02:15 -0500 |
| commit | 59445b0b02c731872c8665ac7e9cf1226fa616e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 93922cf13ed9c62859dac628fa7e376977a23d24 /Documentation/git-merge.txt | |
| parent | Revert "t0081 (line-buffer): add buffering tests" (diff) | |
| parent | Git 1.7.5 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-59445b0b02c731872c8665ac7e9cf1226fa616e4.tar.xz | |
Merge commit 'v1.7.5' into svn-fe
* commit 'v1.7.5': (436 commits)
Git 1.7.5
Git 1.7.5-rc3
Git 1.7.4.5
git-svn.txt: Document --mergeinfo
Revert "run-command: prettify -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE workaround"
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index c1efaaa5c5..e2e6aba17e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [verse] 'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>] - [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] <commit>... + [--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...] 'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>... 'git merge' --abort @@ -95,8 +95,13 @@ commit or stash your changes before running 'git merge'. <commit>...:: Commits, usually other branch heads, to merge into our branch. - You need at least one <commit>. Specifying more than one - <commit> obviously means you are trying an Octopus. + Specifying more than one commit will create a merge with + more than two parents (affectionately called an Octopus merge). ++ +If no commit is given from the command line, and if `merge.defaultToUpstream` +configuration variable is set, merge the remote tracking branches +that the current branch is configured to use as its upstream. +See also the configuration section of this manual page. PRE-MERGE CHECKS @@ -312,15 +317,6 @@ linkgit:git-diff[1], linkgit:git-ls-files[1], linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-rm[1], linkgit:git-mergetool[1] -Author ------- -Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> - - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |