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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 514169066d..29bc51603f 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -749,8 +749,10 @@ merge.summary:: merge.tool:: Controls which merge resolution program is used by - linkgit:git-mergetool[1]. Valid values are: "kdiff3", "tkdiff", - "meld", "xxdiff", "emerge", "vimdiff", "gvimdiff", and "opendiff". + linkgit:git-mergetool[1]. Valid built-in values are: "kdiff3", + "tkdiff", "meld", "xxdiff", "emerge", "vimdiff", "gvimdiff", and + "opendiff". Any other value is treated is custom merge tool + and there must be a corresponing mergetool.<tool>.cmd option. merge.verbosity:: Controls the amount of output shown by the recursive merge @@ -777,6 +779,25 @@ mergetool.<tool>.path:: Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH. +mergetool.<tool>.cmd:: + Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The + specified command is evaluated in shell with the following + variables available: 'BASE' is the name of a temporary file + containing the common base of the files to be merged, if available; + 'LOCAL' is the name of a temporary file containing the contents of + the file on the current branch; 'REMOTE' is the name of a temporary + file containing the contents of the file from the branch being + merged; 'MERGED' contains the name of the file to which the merge + tool should write the results of a successful merge. + +mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode:: + For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of + the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was + successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file + timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful + if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to + indicate the success of the merge. + mergetool.keepBackup:: After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers can be saved as a file with a `.orig` extension. If this variable |