NAME
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-git-merge-index - Runs a merge for files needing merging
+git-merge-index - Run a merge for files needing merging
SYNOPSIS
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-'git-merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | -- | <file>\*)
+'git-merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | \-- | <file>\*)
DESCRIPTION
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-This looks up the <file>(s) in the cache and, if there are any merge
+This looks up the <file>(s) in the index and, if there are any merge
entries, passes the SHA1 hash for those files as arguments 1, 2, 3 (empty
argument if no file), and <file> as argument 4. File modes for the three
files are passed as arguments 5, 6 and 7.
OPTIONS
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---::
- Interpret all following arguments as filenames.
+\--::
+ Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
-a::
- Run merge against all files in the cache that need merging.
+ Run merge against all files in the index that need merging.
-o::
Instead of stopping at the first failed merge, do all of them
processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit
code.
-Typically this is run with the a script calling the merge command from
-the RCS package.
+Typically this is run with the a script calling git's imitation of
+the merge command from the RCS package.
A sample script called "git-merge-one-file" is included in the
distribution.
fatal: merge program failed
where the latter example shows how "git-merge-index" will stop trying to
-merge once anything has returned an error (ie "cat" returned an error
+merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., "cat" returned an error
for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus
"git-merge-index" didn't even try to merge the MM thing).