NAME
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-git-merge-index - Runs a merge for files needing merging
+git-merge-index - Run a merge for files needing merging
SYNOPSIS
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-'git-merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | \-- | <file>\*)
+'git-merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | [--] <file>\*)
DESCRIPTION
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processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit
code.
-Typically this is run with the a script calling the merge command from
-the RCS package.
+Typically this is run with a script calling git's imitation of
+the merge command from the RCS package.
A sample script called "git-merge-one-file" is included in the
distribution.
This is modified MM in the branch B. # merge2
This is modified MM in the branch B. # current contents
-or
+or
torvalds@ppc970:~/merge-test> git-merge-index cat AA MM
cat: : No such file or directory
fatal: merge program failed
where the latter example shows how "git-merge-index" will stop trying to
-merge once anything has returned an error (ie "cat" returned an error
+merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., "cat" returned an error
for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus
"git-merge-index" didn't even try to merge the MM thing).
GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite