SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
-'git-merge' [-n] [--summary] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
+'git-merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [-s <strategy>]...
[-m <msg>] <remote> <remote>...
'git-merge' <msg> HEAD <remote>...
CONFIGURATION
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-
-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 overridden by 'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY' environment variable.
+include::merge-config.txt[]
branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
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A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
-remote branch heads, and the index file must exactly match the
+commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
+exactly match the
tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit) when
it happens. In other words, `git-diff --cached HEAD` must
report no changes.