pull --rebase: Avoid spurious conflicts and reapplying unnecessary patches

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 814714c56e503d1717acc9a1474538f180a4590d..b396a871b32de52962eaa36f9d6be19d108d88ee 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -525,6 +525,23 @@ When left unspecified, the driver itself is used for both
 internal merge and the final merge.
 
 
+`conflict-marker-size`
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+This attribute controls the length of conflict markers left in
+the work tree file during a conflicted merge.  Only setting to
+the value to a positive integer has any meaningful effect.
+
+For example, this line in `.gitattributes` can be used to tell the merge
+machinery to leave much longer (instead of the usual 7-character-long)
+conflict markers when merging the file `Documentation/git-merge.txt`
+results in a conflict.
+
+------------------------
+Documentation/git-merge.txt    conflict-marker-size=32
+------------------------
+
+
 Checking whitespace errors
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