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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt index fb55e92e3b..43680840e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-index.txt @@ -36,20 +36,20 @@ OPTIONS failure usually indicates conflicts during merge). This is for porcelains which might want to emit custom messages. -If "git-merge-index" is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it +If `git-merge-index` is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit code. Typically this is run with a script calling git's imitation of the merge command from the RCS package. -A sample script called "git-merge-one-file" is included in the +A sample script called `git-merge-one-file` is included in the distribution. ALERT ALERT ALERT! The git "merge object order" is different from the -RCS "merge" program merge object order. In the above ordering, the +RCS `merge` program merge object order. In the above ordering, the original is first. But the argument order to the 3-way merge program -"merge" is to have the original in the middle. Don't ask me why. +`merge` is to have the original in the middle. Don't ask me why. Examples: @@ -68,10 +68,10 @@ or This is added AA in the branch B. fatal: merge program failed -where the latter example shows how "git-merge-index" will stop trying to -merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., "cat" returned an error +where the latter example shows how `git-merge-index` will stop trying to +merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., `cat` returned an error for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus -"git-merge-index" didn't even try to merge the MM thing). +`git-merge-index` didn't even try to merge the MM thing). Author ------ |