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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-cache.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..343607cf9a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-cache.txt @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +git-merge-cache(1) +================== +v0.1, May 2005 + +NAME +---- +git-merge-cache - Runs a merge for files needing merging + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-merge-cache' <merge-program> (-a | -- | <file>\*) + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +This looks up the <file>(s) in the cache and, if there are any merge +entries, passes the SHA1 hash for those files as arguments 1, 2, 3 (empty +argument if no file), and <file> as argument 4. File modes for the three +files are passed as arguments 5, 6 and 7. + +OPTIONS +------- +--:: + Interpret all future arguments as filenames. + +-a:: + Run merge against all files in the cache that need merging. + +If "git-merge-cache" 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 the a script calling the merge command from +the RCS package. + +A sample script called "git-merge-one-file-script" is included in the +ditribution. + +ALERT ALERT ALERT! The git "merge object order" is different from 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. + +Examples: + + torvalds@ppc970:~/merge-test> git-merge-cache cat MM + This is MM from the original tree. # original + This is modified MM in the branch A. # merge1 + This is modified MM in the branch B. # merge2 + This is modified MM in the branch B. # current contents + +or + + torvalds@ppc970:~/merge-test> git-merge-cache cat AA MM + cat: : No such file or directory + This is added AA in the branch A. + This is added AA in the branch B. + This is added AA in the branch B. + fatal: merge program failed + +where the latter example shows how "git-merge-cache" will stop trying to +merge once anything has returned an error (ie "cat" returned an error +for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus +"git-merge-cache" didn't even try to merge the MM thing). + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + +GIT +--- +Part of the link:git.html[git] suite + |