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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-rerere.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/rerere.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
index 031f31fa47..df310d2a58 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
@@ -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
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt b/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt
index e65ba9b0c6..aa22d7ace8 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/rerere.txt
@@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ version, and the sorting the conflict hunks, both for the outer and the
inner conflict. This is done recursively, so any number of nested
conflicts can be handled.
+Note that this only works for conflict markers that "cleanly nest". If
+there are any unmatched conflict markers, rerere will fail to handle
+the conflict and record a conflict resolution.
+
The only difference is in how the conflict ID is calculated. For the
inner conflict, the conflict markers themselves are not stripped out
before calculating the sha1.