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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-notes.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt index 07a504266d..f003b7ca1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt @@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ merge:: + If conflicts arise and a strategy for automatically resolving conflicting notes (see the -s/--strategy option) is not given, -the merge fails (TODO). +the "manual" resolver is used. This resolver checks out the +conflicting notes in a special worktree (`.git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE`), +and instructs the user to manually resolve the conflicts there. remove:: Remove the notes for a given object (defaults to HEAD). @@ -191,8 +193,10 @@ object, in which case the history of the notes can be read with NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES ---------------------- -The default notes merge strategy is "manual", which is not yet -implemented (TODO). +The default notes merge strategy is "manual", which checks out +conflicting notes in a special work tree for resolving notes conflicts +(`.git/NOTES_MERGE_WORKTREE`), and instructs the user to resolve the +conflicts in that work tree. "ours" automatically resolves conflicting notes in favor of the local version (i.e. the current notes ref). |