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diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 1276f858ad..4365b7e842 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ MERGE STRATEGIES resolve:: This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch - and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge + and another branch you pulled from) using a 3-way merge algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and fast. recursive:: - This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge - algorithm. When there are more than one common - ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a + This can only resolve two heads using a 3-way merge + algorithm. When there is more than one common + ancestor that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a merged tree of the common ancestors and uses that as the reference tree for the 3-way merge. This has been reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without @@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ recursive:: pulling or merging one branch. octopus:: - This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do - complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is + This resolves cases with more than two heads, but refuses to do + a complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch heads together. This is the default merge strategy when - pulling or merging more than one branches. + pulling or merging more than one branch. ours:: This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the |