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-m <msg>::
The commit message to be used for the merge commit (in case
- it is created). The `git-fmt-merge-msg` script can be used
- to give a good default for automated `git-merge` invocations.
+ it is created). The 'git-fmt-merge-msg' script can be used
+ to give a good default for automated 'git-merge' invocations.
<remote>::
Other branch head merged into our branch. You need at
If you tried a merge which resulted in a complex conflicts and
-would want to start over, you can recover with `git-reset`.
+would want to start over, you can recover with 'git-reset'.
CONFIGURATION
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branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
- supported options are equal to that of `git-merge`, but option values
+ supported options are equal to that of 'git-merge', but option values
containing whitespace characters are currently not supported.
HOW MERGE WORKS
`.git/HEAD` pointer and index file are left intact).
You may have local modifications in the working tree files. In
-other words, `git-diff` is allowed to report changes.
+other words, 'git-diff' is allowed to report changes.
However, the merge uses your working tree as the working area,
and in order to prevent the merge operation from losing such
changes, it makes sure that they do not interfere with the
* Decide not to merge. The only clean-up you need are to reset
the index file to the `HEAD` commit to reverse 2. and to clean
- up working tree changes made by 2. and 3.; `git-reset` can
+ up working tree changes made by 2. and 3.; 'git-reset' can
be used for this.
* Resolve the conflicts. `git diff` would report only the
conflicting paths because of the above 2. and 3. Edit the
- working tree files into a desirable shape, `git-add` or `git-rm`
+ working tree files into a desirable shape, 'git-add' or 'git-rm'
them, to make the index file contain what the merge result
- should be, and run `git-commit` to commit the result.
+ should be, and run 'git-commit' to commit the result.
SEE ALSO