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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 20f9228511..c852a2677a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ commit or stash your changes before running 'git merge'. more than two parents (affectionately called an Octopus merge). + If no commit is given from the command line, and if `merge.defaultToUpstream` -configuration variable is set, merge the remote tracking branches +configuration variable is set, merge the remote-tracking branches that the current branch is configured to use as its upstream. See also the configuration section of this manual page. @@ -178,10 +178,10 @@ of the merge. Among the changes made to the common ancestor's version, non-overlapping ones (that is, you changed an area of the file while the other side left that area intact, or vice versa) are incorporated in the final result verbatim. When both sides made changes to the same area, -however, git cannot randomly pick one side over the other, and asks you to +however, Git cannot randomly pick one side over the other, and asks you to resolve it by leaving what both sides did to that area. -By default, git uses the same style as the one used by the "merge" program +By default, Git uses the same style as the one used by the "merge" program from the RCS suite to present such a conflicted hunk, like this: ------------ |