From 58a1ece478c6038a7eb0b6e494d563bd5e6d5978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Frankel Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:50:45 -0500 Subject: merge-recursive --patience Teach the merge-recursive strategy a --patience option to use the "patience diff" algorithm, which tends to improve results when cherry-picking a patch that reorders functions at the same time as refactoring them. To support this, struct merge_options and ll_merge_options gain an xdl_opts member, so programs can use arbitrary xdiff flags (think "XDF_IGNORE_WHITESPACE") in a git-aware merge. git merge and git rebase can be passed the -Xpatience option to use this. [jn: split from --ignore-space patch; with documentation] Signed-off-by: Justin Frankel Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/merge-strategies.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt index 049313d601..a5ae14fba5 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt @@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it. theirs;; This is opposite of 'ours'. +patience;; + With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time + to avoid mismerges that sometimes occur due to unimportant + matching lines (e.g., braces from distinct functions). Use + this when the branches to be merged have diverged wildly. + See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--patience`. + renormalize;; This runs a virtual check-out and check-in of all three stages of a file when resolving a three-way merge. This option is -- cgit v1.2.3