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diff --git a/Documentation/git-notes.txt b/Documentation/git-notes.txt index a82255119a..1de1417d82 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-notes.txt @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ OPTIONS --strategy=<strategy>:: When merging notes, resolve notes conflicts using the given strategy. The following strategies are recognized: "manual" - (default), "ours", "theirs" and "union". + (default), "ours", "theirs", "union" and "cat_sort_uniq". See the "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section below for more information on each notes merge strategy. @@ -230,6 +230,16 @@ ref). "union" automatically resolves notes conflicts by concatenating the local and remote versions. +"cat_sort_uniq" is similar to "union", but in addition to concatenating +the local and remote versions, this strategy also sorts the resulting +lines, and removes duplicate lines from the result. This is equivalent +to applying the "cat | sort | uniq" shell pipeline to the local and +remote versions. This strategy is useful if the notes follow a line-based +format where one wants to avoid duplicated lines in the merge result. +Note that if either the local or remote version contain duplicate lines +prior to the merge, these will also be removed by this notes merge +strategy. + EXAMPLES -------- |