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@@ -8,30 +8,22 @@ git-merge-tree - Show three-way merge without touching index
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-merge-tree' <base-tree> <branch1> <branch2>
+[verse]
+'git merge-tree' <base-tree> <branch1> <branch2>
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Reads three treeish, and output trivial merge results and
+Reads three tree-ish, and output trivial merge results and
conflicting stages to the standard output. This is similar to
-what three-way read-tree -m does, but instead of storing the
+what three-way 'git read-tree -m' does, but instead of storing the
results in the index, the command outputs the entries to the
standard output.
This is meant to be used by higher level scripts to compute
-merge results outside index, and stuff the results back into the
+merge results outside of the index, and stuff the results back into the
index. For this reason, the output from the command omits
-entries that match <branch1> tree.
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+entries that match the <branch1> tree.
GIT
---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite