<upstream>. May be any valid commit, and not just an
existing branch name.
+
-As a special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the
+As a special case, you may use "A\...B" as a shortcut for the
merge base of A and B if there is exactly one merge base. You can
leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to HEAD.
the 'ours' strategy simply discards all patches from the <branch>,
which makes little sense.
+-X <strategy-option>::
+--strategy-option=<strategy-option>::
+ Pass the <strategy-option> through to the merge strategy.
+ This implies `\--merge` and, if no strategy has been
+ specified, `-s recursive`. Note the reversal of 'ours' and
+ 'theirs' as noted in above for the `-m` option.
+
-q::
--quiet::
Be quiet. Implies --no-stat.