NAME
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-git-merge - Grand Unified Merge Driver
+git-merge - Join two or more development histories together
SYNOPSIS
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-'git-merge' [-n] [--no-commit] [-s <strategy>]... <msg> <head> <remote> <remote>...
-
+[verse]
+'git-merge' [-n] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
+ -m=<msg> <remote> <remote>...
DESCRIPTION
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-This is the top-level user interface to the merge machinery
+This is the top-level interface to the merge machinery
which drives multiple merge strategy scripts.
to give a good default for automated `git-merge` invocations.
<head>::
- our branch head commit.
+ Our branch head commit. This has to be `HEAD`, so new
+ syntax does not require it
<remote>::
- other branch head merged into our branch. You need at
+ Other branch head merged into our branch. You need at
least one <remote>. Specifying more than one <remote>
obviously means you are trying an Octopus.
stops before touching anything.
So in the above two "failed merge" case, you do not have to
-worry about lossage of data --- you simply were not ready to do
+worry about loss of data --- you simply were not ready to do
a merge, so no merge happened at all. You may want to finish
whatever you were in the middle of doing, and retry the same
pull after you are done and ready.