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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt index 031f31fa47..4cfc883378 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ on the initial manual merge, and applying previously recorded hand resolutions to their corresponding automerge results. [NOTE] -You need to set the configuration variable rerere.enabled in order to +You need to set the configuration variable `rerere.enabled` in order to enable this command. @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ For such a test, you need to merge master and topic somehow. One way to do it is to pull master into the topic branch: ------------ - $ git checkout topic + $ git switch topic $ git merge master o---*---o---+ topic @@ -113,10 +113,10 @@ the upstream might have been advanced since the test merge `+`, in which case the final commit graph would look like this: ------------ - $ git checkout topic + $ git switch topic $ git merge master $ ... work on both topic and master branches - $ git checkout master + $ git switch master $ git merge topic o---*---o---+---o---o topic @@ -136,11 +136,11 @@ merges, you could blow away the test merge, and keep building on top of the tip before the test merge: ------------ - $ git checkout topic + $ git switch topic $ git merge master $ git reset --hard HEAD^ ;# rewind the test merge $ ... work on both topic and master branches - $ git checkout master + $ git switch master $ git merge topic o---*---o-------o---o topic @@ -211,6 +211,12 @@ would conflict the same way as the test merge you resolved earlier. 'git rerere' will be run by 'git rebase' to help you resolve this conflict. +[NOTE] 'git rerere' relies on the conflict markers in the file to +detect the conflict. If the file already contains lines that look the +same as lines with conflict markers, 'git rerere' may fail to record a +conflict resolution. To work around this, the `conflict-marker-size` +setting in linkgit:gitattributes[5] can be used. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |