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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-03-25 22:00:48 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-04-29 13:54:40 -0700
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merge: drop 'git merge <message> HEAD <commit>' syntaxjc/merge-drop-old-syntax
And then if we and our users survived the previous "start warning if the old syntax is used" patch for a few years, we could apply this to actually drop the support for the ancient syntax. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-merge.txt7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
index d9aa6b6f11..81a7f24def 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git merge' [-n] [--stat] [--no-commit] [--squash] [--[no-]edit]
[-s <strategy>] [-X <strategy-option>] [-S[<key-id>]]
[--[no-]rerere-autoupdate] [-m <msg>] [<commit>...]
-'git merge' <msg> HEAD <commit>...
'git merge' --abort
DESCRIPTION
@@ -44,11 +43,7 @@ a log message from the user describing the changes.
D---E---F---G---H master
------------
-The second syntax (<msg> `HEAD` <commit>...) is supported for
-historical reasons. Do not use it from the command line or in
-new scripts. It is the same as `git merge -m <msg> <commit>...`.
-
-The third syntax ("`git merge --abort`") can only be run after the
+The second syntax ("`git merge --abort`") can only be run after the
merge has resulted in conflicts. 'git merge --abort' will abort the
merge process and try to reconstruct the pre-merge state. However,
if there were uncommitted changes when the merge started (and