ll-merge: make flag easier to populate

ll_merge() takes its options in a flag word, which has a few
advantages:

 - options flags can be cheaply passed around in registers, while
   an option struct passed by pointer cannot;

 - callers can easily pass 0 without trouble for no options,
   while an option struct passed by value would not allow that.

The downside is that code to populate and access the flag word can be
somewhat opaque.  Mitigate that with a few macros.

Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Cc: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-merge.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-merge.txt
index 01a89d6d0b..a7e050bb7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-merge.txt
@@ -49,12 +49,15 @@ supports this.
 
 The `flag` parameter is a bitfield:
 
- - The least significant bit indicates whether this is an internal
-   merge to consolidate ancestors for a recursive merge.
+ - The `LL_OPT_VIRTUAL_ANCESTOR` bit indicates whether this is an
+   internal merge to consolidate ancestors for a recursive merge.
 
- - The next two bits allow local conflicts to be automatically
+ - The `LL_OPT_FAVOR_MASK` bits allow local conflicts to be automatically
    resolved in favor of one side or the other (as in 'git merge-file'
-   `--ours`/`--theirs`/`--union` for 01, 10, and 11, respectively).
+   `--ours`/`--theirs`/`--union`).
+   They can be populated by `create_ll_flag`, whose argument can be
+   `XDL_MERGE_FAVOR_OURS`, `XDL_MERGE_FAVOR_THEIRS`, or
+   `XDL_MERGE_FAVOR_UNION`.
 
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