SYNOPSIS
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-'git rerere' ['clear'|'diff'|'status'|'gc']
+'git rerere' ['clear'|'forget' [<pathspec>]|'diff'|'status'|'gc']
DESCRIPTION
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COMMANDS
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-Normally, 'git-rerere' is run without arguments or user-intervention.
+Normally, 'git rerere' is run without arguments or user-intervention.
However, it has several commands that allow it to interact with
its working state.
'clear'::
This resets the metadata used by rerere if a merge resolution is to be
-aborted. Calling 'git-am [--skip|--abort]' or 'git-rebase [--skip|--abort]'
+aborted. Calling 'git am [--skip|--abort]' or 'git rebase [--skip|--abort]'
will automatically invoke this command.
+'forget' <pathspec>::
+
+This resets the conflict resolutions which rerere has recorded for the current
+conflict in <pathspec>. The <pathspec> is optional.
+
'diff'::
This displays diffs for the current state of the resolution. It is
would require you to resolve the conflict, introduced by the
commits marked with `*`. However, this conflict is often the
same conflict you resolved when you created the test merge you
-blew away. 'git-rerere' helps you resolve this final
+blew away. 'git rerere' helps you resolve this final
conflicted merge using the information from your earlier hand
resolve.
-Running the 'git-rerere' command immediately after a conflicted
+Running the 'git rerere' command immediately after a conflicted
automerge records the conflicted working tree files, with the
usual conflict markers `<<<<<<<`, `=======`, and `>>>>>>>` in
them. Later, after you are done resolving the conflicts,
-running 'git-rerere' again will record the resolved state of these
+running 'git rerere' again will record the resolved state of these
files. Suppose you did this when you created the test merge of
master into the topic branch.
Next time, after seeing the same conflicted automerge,
-running 'git-rerere' will perform a three-way merge between the
+running 'git rerere' will perform a three-way merge between the
earlier conflicted automerge, the earlier manual resolution, and
the current conflicted automerge.
If this three-way merge resolves cleanly, the result is written
out to your working tree file, so you do not have to manually
-resolve it. Note that 'git-rerere' leaves the index file alone,
+resolve it. Note that 'git rerere' leaves the index file alone,
so you still need to do the final sanity checks with `git diff`
-(or `git diff -c`) and 'git-add' when you are satisfied.
+(or `git diff -c`) and 'git add' when you are satisfied.
-As a convenience measure, 'git-merge' automatically invokes
-'git-rerere' upon exiting with a failed automerge and 'git-rerere'
+As a convenience measure, 'git merge' automatically invokes
+'git rerere' upon exiting with a failed automerge and 'git rerere'
records the hand resolve when it is a new conflict, or reuses the earlier hand
-resolve when it is not. 'git-commit' also invokes 'git-rerere'
+resolve when it is not. 'git commit' also invokes 'git rerere'
when committing a merge result. What this means is that you do
not have to do anything special yourself (besides enabling
the rerere.enabled config variable).
actual merge later with the updated master and topic branch, as long
as the recorded resolution is still applicable.
-The information 'git-rerere' records is also used when running
-'git-rebase'. After blowing away the test merge and continuing
+The information 'git rerere' records is also used when running
+'git rebase'. After blowing away the test merge and continuing
development on the topic branch:
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up-to-date before your topic is ready to be sent upstream.
This would result in falling back to a three-way merge, and it
would conflict the same way as the test merge you resolved earlier.
-'git-rerere' will be run by 'git-rebase' to help you resolve this
+'git rerere' will be run by 'git rebase' to help you resolve this
conflict.