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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt index a53858e250..64715c17da 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-rerere - Reuse recorded resolution of conflicted merges SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-rerere' [clear|diff|status|gc] +'git rerere' ['clear'|'diff'|'status'|'gc'] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -30,26 +30,26 @@ enable this command. COMMANDS -------- -Normally, git-rerere is run without arguments or user-intervention. +Normally, 'git-rerere' is run without arguments or user-intervention. However, it has several commands that allow it to interact with its working state. 'clear':: This resets the metadata used by rerere if a merge resolution is to be -is aborted. Calling linkgit:git-am[1] --skip or linkgit:git-rebase[1] -[--skip|--abort] will automatically invoke this command. +aborted. Calling 'git-am [--skip|--abort]' or 'git-rebase [--skip|--abort]' +will automatically invoke this command. 'diff':: This displays diffs for the current state of the resolution. It is useful for tracking what has changed while the user is resolving conflicts. Additional arguments are passed directly to the system -diff(1) command installed in PATH. +'diff' command installed in PATH. 'status':: -Like diff, but this only prints the filenames that will be tracked +Like 'diff', but this only prints the filenames that will be tracked for resolutions. 'gc':: @@ -90,15 +90,15 @@ One way to do it is to pull master into the topic branch: The commits marked with `*` touch the same area in the same file; you need to resolve the conflicts when creating the commit -marked with `+`. Then you can test the result to make sure your +marked with `{plus}`. Then you can test the result to make sure your work-in-progress still works with what is in the latest master. After this test merge, there are two ways to continue your work on the topic. The easiest is to build on top of the test merge -commit `+`, and when your work in the topic branch is finally +commit `{plus}`, and when your work in the topic branch is finally ready, pull the topic branch into master, and/or ask the upstream to pull from you. By that time, however, the master or -the upstream might have been advanced since the test merge `+`, +the upstream might have been advanced since the test merge `{plus}`, in which case the final commit graph would look like this: ------------ @@ -142,33 +142,33 @@ finally ready and merged into the master branch. This merge would require you to resolve the conflict, introduced by the commits marked with `*`. However, often this conflict is the same conflict you resolved when you created the test merge you -blew away. `git-rerere` command helps you to resolve this final +blew away. 'git-rerere' command helps you to resolve this final conflicted merge using the information from your earlier hand resolve. -Running `git-rerere` command immediately after a conflicted +Running the 'git-rerere' command immediately after a conflicted automerge records the conflicted working tree files, with the usual conflict markers `<<<<<<<`, `=======`, and `>>>>>>>` in them. Later, after you are done resolving the conflicts, -running `git-rerere` again records the resolved state of these +running 'git-rerere' again records the resolved state of these files. Suppose you did this when you created the test merge of master into the topic branch. -Next time, running `git-rerere` after seeing a conflicted +Next time, running 'git-rerere' after seeing a conflicted automerge, if the conflict is the same as the earlier one recorded, it is noticed and a three-way merge between the earlier conflicted automerge, the earlier manual resolution, and the current conflicted automerge is performed by the command. If this three-way merge resolves cleanly, the result is written out to your working tree file, so you would not have to manually -resolve it. Note that `git-rerere` leaves the index file alone, +resolve it. Note that 'git-rerere' leaves the index file alone, so you still need to do the final sanity checks with `git diff` -(or `git diff -c`) and `git add` when you are satisfied. +(or `git diff -c`) and 'git-add' when you are satisfied. -As a convenience measure, `git-merge` automatically invokes -`git-rerere` when it exits with a failed automerge, which +As a convenience measure, 'git-merge' automatically invokes +'git-rerere' when it exits with a failed automerge, which records it if it is a new conflict, or reuses the earlier hand -resolve when it is not. `git-commit` also invokes `git-rerere` +resolve when it is not. 'git-commit' also invokes 'git-rerere' when recording a merge result. What this means is that you do not have to do anything special yourself (Note: you still have to set the config variable rerere.enabled to enable this command). @@ -178,8 +178,8 @@ resolution is recorded, and it will be reused when you do the actual merge later with updated master and topic branch, as long as the earlier resolution is still applicable. -The information `git-rerere` records is also used when running -`git-rebase`. After blowing away the test merge and continuing +The information 'git-rerere' records is also used when running +'git-rebase'. After blowing away the test merge and continuing development on the topic branch: ------------ @@ -198,14 +198,14 @@ you could run `git rebase master topic`, to keep yourself up-to-date even before your topic is ready to be sent upstream. This would result in falling back to three-way merge, and it would conflict the same way the test merge you resolved earlier. -`git-rerere` is run by `git rebase` to help you resolve this +'git-rerere' is run by 'git-rebase' to help you resolve this conflict. Author ------ -Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> +Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |