Also document the recently added -Xtheirs, -Xours and -Xsubtree[=path]
options to the merge-recursive strategy.
(Patch originally by Junio Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>.)
Signed-off-by: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/merge-options.txt | 4 ++++
Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
index fec3394..95244d2 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
@@ -74,3 +74,7 @@ option can be used to override --squash.
-v::
--verbose::
Be verbose.
+
+-X<option>::
+ Pass merge strategy specific option through to the merge
+ strategy.
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index 42910a3..360dd6f 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
MERGE STRATEGIES
----------------
+The merge mechanism ('git-merge' and 'git-pull' commands) allows the
+backend 'merge strategies' to be chosen with `-s` option. Some strategies
+can also take their own options, which can be passed by giving `-X<option>`
+arguments to 'git-merge' and/or 'git-pull'.
+
resolve::
This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
and another branch you pulled from) using a 3-way merge
@@ -20,6 +25,27 @@ recursive::
Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving
renames. This is the default merge strategy when
pulling or merging one branch.
++
+The 'recursive' strategy can take the following options:
+
+ours;;
+ This option forces conflicting hunks to be auto-resolved cleanly by
+ favoring 'our' version. Changes from the other tree that do not
+ conflict with our side are reflected to the merge result.
++
+This should not be confused with the 'ours' merge strategy, which does not
+even look at what the other tree contains at all. That one discards everything
+the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it.
+
+theirs;;
+ This is opposite of 'ours'.
+
+subtree[=path];;
+ This option is a more advanced form of 'subtree' strategy, where
+ the strategy makes a guess on how two trees must be shifted to
+ match with each other when merging. Instead, the specified path
+ is prefixed (or stripped from the beginning) to make the shape of
+ two trees to match.
octopus::
This resolves cases with more than two heads, but refuses to do
@@ -33,7 +59,8 @@ ours::
merge is always that of the current branch head, effectively
ignoring all changes from all other branches. It is meant to
be used to supersede old development history of side
- branches.
+ branches. Note that this is different from the -Xours option to
+ the 'recursive' merge strategy.
subtree::
This is a modified recursive strategy. When merging trees A and
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