Merge branch 'jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix'
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 05:47:57 +0000 (14:47 +0900)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 28 Sep 2017 05:47:57 +0000 (14:47 +0900)
The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly
written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.

* jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix:
merge-strategies: avoid implying that "-s theirs" exists

Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index 2eb92b93274df9fb5002336114654fe869903808..a09d5974639fa772ba86c5547fe70716fd044f73 100644 (file)
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ even look at what the other tree contains at all.  It discards everything
 the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it.
 
 theirs;;
-       This is the opposite of 'ours'.
+       This is the opposite of 'ours'; note that, unlike 'ours', there is
+       no 'theirs' merge stragegy to confuse this merge option with.
 
 patience;;
        With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time