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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt b/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt index e65ba9b0c6..aa22d7ace8 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt @@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ version, and the sorting the conflict hunks, both for the outer and the inner conflict. This is done recursively, so any number of nested conflicts can be handled. +Note that this only works for conflict markers that "cleanly nest". If +there are any unmatched conflict markers, rerere will fail to handle +the conflict and record a conflict resolution. + The only difference is in how the conflict ID is calculated. For the inner conflict, the conflict markers themselves are not stripped out before calculating the sha1. |