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When a merge conflict happens, the index entries for conflicting
paths are left unmerged, and you need to resolve the conflicts
-and mark the resolved paths with `git update-index`.
+and mark the resolved paths with `git add` (or `git rm` if the merge
+should result in deletion of the path).
<new_branch>::
Name for the new branch.
At this point, `git diff` shows the changes cleanly merged as in
the previous example, as well as the changes in the conflicted
files. Edit and resolve the conflict and mark it resolved with
-`git update-index` as usual:
+`git add` as usual:
+
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$ edit frotz
-$ git update-index frotz
+$ git add frotz
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