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| author | Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de> | 2013-08-27 20:03:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-08-27 15:14:44 -0700 |
| commit | e8e9964de489412aae2c9b8420d2fab8b00e9d12 (patch) | |
| tree | 07bef4a754e37a08ed7c7da080bdf399a24346d1 /Documentation/user-manual.txt | |
| parent | df47da758e6c7e76f9011f53df1cfdaf3443de1c (diff) | |
| download | git-e8e9964de489412aae2c9b8420d2fab8b00e9d12.tar.gz | |
Improve section "Merging multiple trees"
Remove unnecessary quoting.
Simplify description of three-way merge.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index f481813be7..e65ac13ae3 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -4004,27 +4004,26 @@ to see what the top commit was. Merging multiple trees ---------------------- -Git helps you do a three-way merge, which you can expand to n-way by -repeating the merge procedure arbitrary times until you finally -"commit" the state. The normal situation is that you'd only do one -three-way merge (two parents), and commit it, but if you like to, you -can do multiple parents in one go. +Git can help you perform a three-way merge, which can in turn be +used for a many-way merge by repeating the merge procedure several +times. The usual situation is that you only do one three-way merge +(reconciling two lines of history) and commit the result, but if +you like to, you can merge several branches in one go. -To do a three-way merge, you need the two sets of "commit" objects -that you want to merge, use those to find the closest common parent (a -third "commit" object), and then use those commit objects to find the -state of the directory ("tree" object) at these points. +To perform a three-way merge, you start with the two commits you +want to merge, find their closest common parent (a third commit), +and compare the trees corresponding to these three commits. -To get the "base" for the merge, you first look up the common parent -of two commits with +To get the "base" for the merge, look up the common parent of two +commits: ------------------------------------------------- $ git merge-base <commit1> <commit2> ------------------------------------------------- -which will return you the commit they are both based on. You should -now look up the "tree" objects of those commits, which you can easily -do with (for example) +This prints the name of a commit they are both based on. You should +now look up the tree objects of those commits, which you can easily +do with ------------------------------------------------- $ git cat-file commit <commitname> | head -1 |