merged tree of the common ancestors and uses that as
the reference tree for the 3-way merge. This has been
reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
- causing mis-merges by tests done on actual merge commits
+ causing mismerges by tests done on actual merge commits
taken from Linux 2.6 kernel development history.
Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving
renames. This is the default merge strategy when
Disables the `renormalize` option. This overrides the
`merge.renormalize` configuration variable.
+no-renames;;
+ Turn off rename detection.
+ See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--no-renames`.
+
+find-renames[=<n>];;
+ Turn on rename detection, optionally setting the similarity
+ threshold. This is the default.
+ See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--find-renames`.
+
rename-threshold=<n>;;
- Controls the similarity threshold used for rename detection.
- See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `-M`.
+ Deprecated synonym for `find-renames=<n>`.
subtree[=<path>];;
This option is a more advanced form of 'subtree' strategy, where