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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Instead of stopping at the first failed merge, do all of them
in one shot - continue with merging even when previous merges
returned errors, and only return the error code after all the
- merges are over.
+ merges.
-q::
- Do not complain about failed merge program (the merge program
- failure usually indicates conflicts during merge). This is for
+ Do not complain about a failed merge program (a merge program
+ failure usually indicates conflicts during the merge). This is for
porcelains which might want to emit custom messages.
-If `git-merge-index` is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it
+If 'git merge-index' is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it
processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit
code.
Typically this is run with a script calling git's imitation of
-the merge command from the RCS package.
+the 'merge' command from the RCS package.
-A sample script called `git-merge-one-file` is included in the
+A sample script called 'git merge-one-file' is included in the
distribution.
ALERT ALERT ALERT! The git "merge object order" is different from the
-RCS `merge` program merge object order. In the above ordering, the
+RCS 'merge' program merge object order. In the above ordering, the
original is first. But the argument order to the 3-way merge program
-`merge` is to have the original in the middle. Don't ask me why.
+'merge' is to have the original in the middle. Don't ask me why.
Examples:
This is added AA in the branch B.
fatal: merge program failed
-where the latter example shows how `git-merge-index` will stop trying to
+where the latter example shows how 'git merge-index' will stop trying to
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).
-
-Author
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-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-One-shot merge by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
-
-Documentation
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-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+'git merge-index' didn't even try to merge the MM thing).
GIT
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