X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-merge.txt;h=144bc16ff26bbf1d311482e6be15fc034994ce49;hb=89df580d0a2e97b0c7c072d87e5e815534deed56;hp=d285cba033325f8652996ea71a06d53c22424dae;hpb=f8db7884286232274c8e7c7d82a35a2478b097d3;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index d285cba03..144bc16ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -43,6 +43,21 @@ If you tried a merge which resulted in a complex conflicts and would want to start over, you can recover with gitlink:git-reset[1]. +CONFIGURATION +------------- + +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 overriden by 'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY' environment variable. + HOW MERGE WORKS --------------- @@ -92,11 +107,11 @@ pull after you are done and ready. When things cleanly merge, these things happen: -1. the results are updated both in the index file and in your - working tree, -2. index file is written out as a tree, -3. the tree gets committed, and -4. the `HEAD` pointer gets advanced. +1. The results are updated both in the index file and in your + working tree; +2. Index file is written out as a tree; +3. The tree gets committed; and +4. The `HEAD` pointer gets advanced. Because of 2., we require that the original state of the index file to match exactly the current `HEAD` commit; otherwise we