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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-05-25 00:59:07 -0700
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@@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ MERGE STRATEGIES
resolve::
This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
- and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge
+ and another branch you pulled from) using a 3-way merge
algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross
merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and
fast.
recursive::
- This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
- algorithm. When there are more than one common
- ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
+ This can only resolve two heads using a 3-way merge
+ algorithm. When there is more than one common
+ ancestor that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
merged tree of the common ancestors and uses that as
the reference tree for the 3-way merge. This has been
reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ recursive::
pulling or merging one branch.
octopus::
- This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do
- complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is
+ This resolves cases with more than two heads, but refuses to do
+ a complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is
primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch
heads together. This is the default merge strategy when
- pulling or merging more than one branches.
+ pulling or merging more than one branch.
ours::
This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the