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authorBrian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>2008-07-08 00:12:22 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-08 13:13:03 -0700
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Documentation: mention ORIG_HEAD in am, merge, and rebase
Merge has always set ORIG_HEAD but never mentioned it, while we recently added it to am and rebase. These facts should be reflected in the documentation. git-reset also sets ORIG_HEAD, but that fact is already mentioned in the very first example so no changes were needed there. Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ Otherwise, merge will refuse to do any harm to your repository
(that is, it may fetch the objects from remote, and it may even
update the local branch used to keep track of the remote branch
with `git pull remote rbranch:lbranch`, but your working tree,
-`.git/HEAD` pointer and index file are left intact).
+`.git/HEAD` pointer and index file are left intact). In addition,
+merge always sets `.git/ORIG_HEAD` to the original state of HEAD so
+a problematic merge can be removed by using `git reset ORIG_HEAD`.
You may have local modifications in the working tree files. In
other words, 'git-diff' is allowed to report changes.