From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:48:40 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Documentation: merge: use MERGE_HEAD to refer to the remote branch X-Git-Tag: v1.7.0-rc0~7^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3588cf94812d47dd34b82039c7776f5225a947fb;p=git.git Documentation: merge: use MERGE_HEAD to refer to the remote branch commit 57bddb11 (Documentation/git-merge: reword references to "remote" and "pull", 2010-01-07) fixed the manual to drop the assumption that the other branch being merged is from a remote repository. Unfortunately, in a few places, to do so it introduced the antecedentless phrase "their versions". Worse, in passages like the following, 'they' is playing two roles. | highlighting changes from both the HEAD and their versions. | | * Look at the diffs on their own. 'git log --merge -p ' Using HEAD and MERGE_HEAD nicely assigns terminology to "our" and "their" sides. It also provides the reader with practice using names that git will recognize on the command line. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 6412805f0..e9e2b0cd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -215,15 +215,17 @@ You can work through the conflict with a number of tools: mergetool which will work you through the merge. * Look at the diffs. `git diff` will show a three-way diff, - highlighting changes from both the HEAD and their versions. + highlighting changes from both the `HEAD` and `MERGE_HEAD` + versions. - * Look at the diffs on their own. `git log --merge -p ` - will show diffs first for the HEAD version and then - their version. + * Look at the diffs from each branch. `git log --merge -p ` + will show diffs first for the `HEAD` version and then the + `MERGE_HEAD` version. * Look at the originals. `git show :1:filename` shows the - common ancestor, `git show :2:filename` shows the HEAD - version and `git show :3:filename` shows their version. + common ancestor, `git show :2:filename` shows the `HEAD` + version, and `git show :3:filename` shows the `MERGE_HEAD` + version. EXAMPLES