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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt index ff088c5c29..921b38f183 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-merge-index - Run a merge for files needing merging SYNOPSIS -------- -'git merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <file>\*) +'git merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <file>*) DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -29,21 +29,21 @@ OPTIONS Instead of stopping at the first failed merge, do all of them in one shot - continue with merging even when previous merges returned errors, and only return the error code after all the - merges are over. + merges. -q:: - Do not complain about failed merge program (the merge program - failure usually indicates conflicts during merge). This is for + Do not complain about a failed merge program (a merge program + failure usually indicates conflicts during the merge). This is for porcelains which might want to emit custom messages. -If 'git-merge-index' is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it +If 'git merge-index' is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit code. Typically this is run with a script calling git's imitation of the 'merge' command from the RCS package. -A sample script called 'git-merge-one-file' is included in the +A sample script called 'git merge-one-file' is included in the distribution. ALERT ALERT ALERT! The git "merge object order" is different from the @@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ or This is added AA in the branch B. fatal: merge program failed -where the latter example shows how 'git-merge-index' will stop trying to +where the latter example shows how 'git merge-index' will stop trying to merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., `cat` returned an error for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus -'git-merge-index' didn't even try to merge the MM thing). +'git merge-index' didn't even try to merge the MM thing). Author ------ |