SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-merge' [-n] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
+'git-merge' [-n] [--summary] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
[-m <msg>] <remote> <remote>...
DESCRIPTION
would want to start over, you can recover with
gitlink:git-reset[1].
+CONFIGURATION
+-------------
+
+merge.summary::
+ Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly
+ created merge commit. False by default.
+
+merge.verbosity::
+ Controls the amount of output shown by the recursive merge
+ strategy. Level 0 outputs nothing except a final error
+ message if conflicts were detected. Level 1 outputs only
+ conflicts, 2 outputs conflicts and file changes. Level 5 and
+ above outputs debugging information. The default is level 2.
+ Can be overriden by 'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY' environment variable.
+
HOW MERGE WORKS
---------------
1. the results are updated both in the index file and in your
working tree,
2. index file is written out as a tree,
-3. the tree gets committed, and
+3. the tree gets committed, and
4. the `HEAD` pointer gets advanced.
Because of 2., we require that the original state of the index