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-rw-r--r--Documentation/merge-strategies.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
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@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ octopus::
pulling or merging more than one branch.
ours::
- This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the
- merge is always the current branch head. It is meant to
+ This resolves any number of heads, but the resulting tree of the
+ merge is always that of the current branch head, effectively
+ ignoring all changes from all other branches. It is meant to
be used to supersede old development history of side
branches.