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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt index 149f131051..024ec015a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge-file.txt @@ -9,21 +9,21 @@ git-merge-file - Run a three-way file merge SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-merge-file' [-L <current-name> [-L <base-name> [-L <other-name>]]] +'git merge-file' [-L <current-name> [-L <base-name> [-L <other-name>]]] [-p|--stdout] [-q|--quiet] <current-file> <base-file> <other-file> DESCRIPTION ----------- -git-file-merge incorporates all changes that lead from the `<base-file>` +'git-file-merge' incorporates all changes that lead from the `<base-file>` to `<other-file>` into `<current-file>`. The result ordinarily goes into -`<current-file>`. git-merge-file is useful for combining separate changes +`<current-file>`. 'git-merge-file' is useful for combining separate changes to an original. Suppose `<base-file>` is the original, and both `<current-file>` and `<other-file>` are modifications of `<base-file>`. -Then git-merge-file combines both changes. +Then 'git-merge-file' combines both changes. A conflict occurs if both `<current-file>` and `<other-file>` have changes -in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, git-merge-file +in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, 'git-merge-file' normally outputs a warning and brackets the conflict with <<<<<<< and >>>>>>> lines. A typical conflict will look like this: @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ the alternatives. The exit value of this program is negative on error, and the number of conflicts otherwise. If the merge was clean, the exit value is 0. -git-merge-file is designed to be a minimal clone of RCS merge, that is, it -implements all of RCS merge's functionality which is needed by +'git-merge-file' is designed to be a minimal clone of RCS 'merge'; that is, it +implements all of RCS 'merge''s functionality which is needed by linkgit:git[1]. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ OPTIONS This option may be given up to three times, and specifies labels to be used in place of the corresponding file names in conflict reports. That is, - `git-merge-file -L x -L y -L z a b c` generates output that + `git merge-file -L x -L y -L z a b c` generates output that looks like it came from files x, y and z instead of from files a, b and c. @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Written by Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Documentation -------------- Documentation by Johannes Schindelin and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>, -with parts copied from the original documentation of RCS merge. +with parts copied from the original documentation of RCS 'merge'. GIT --- |