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author | 2009-05-25 00:59:07 -0700 | |
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committer | 2009-05-25 00:59:07 -0700 | |
commit | ee969693c5e77e1b5ebda45bead569806d31b379 (patch) | |
tree | 25d803cd17cbe891a9937f3e3442a1d7863ae773 /Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | |
parent | apply, fmt-merge-msg: use relative filenames (diff) | |
parent | Merge branch 'maint' (diff) | |
download | tgif-ee969693c5e77e1b5ebda45bead569806d31b379.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'master' into sb/opt-filename
* master: (654 commits)
http-push.c::remove_locks(): fix use after free
t/t3400-rebase.sh: add more tests to help migrating git-rebase.sh to C
post-receive-email: hooks.showrev: show how to include both web link and patch
MinGW: Fix compiler warning in merge-recursive
MinGW: Add a simple getpass()
MinGW: use POSIX signature of waitpid()
MinGW: the path separator to split GITPERLLIB is ';' on Win32
MinGW: Scan for \r in addition to \n when reading shbang lines
gitweb: Sanitize title attribute in format_subject_html
Terminate argv with NULL before calling setup_revisions()
doc/git-rebase.txt: remove mention of multiple strategies
git-send-email: Handle quotes when parsing .mailrc files
git-svn: add --authors-prog option
git-svn: Set svn.authorsfile if it is passed to git svn clone
git-svn: Correctly report max revision when following deleted paths
git-svn: Fix for svn paths removed > log-window-size revisions ago
git-svn testsuite: use standard configuration for Subversion tools
grep: fix word-regexp colouring
completion: use git rev-parse to detect bare repos
Cope better with a _lot_ of packs
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diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 1276f858ad..4365b7e842 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -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 |