Re: [PATCH 07/13] Improve description in "How to merge"

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Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Describe the conflict resolution in terms of the
> commands the user is supposed to use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/user-manual.txt | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> index ccbddc7..0656191 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> @@ -1251,10 +1251,8 @@ Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
>  -------------------------------------------------
>  
>  Conflict markers are left in the problematic files, and after
> -you resolve the conflicts manually, you can update the index
> -with the contents and run Git commit, as you normally would when
> -creating a new file.
> -
> +you have resolved the conflicts manually, you can `git add` the
> +new contents and do a `git commit` in the end.

This is a slight documentation regression, as there are cases your
conflict resolution is a removal of the file, isn't it?

>  If you examine the resulting commit using gitk, you will see that it
>  has two parents, one pointing to the top of the current branch, and
>  one to the top of the other branch.
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