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Documentation/git-merge: document subtree strategy.

There was already some documentation about subtree under
Documentation/howto but it was missing from git-merge manpage.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Miklos Vajna 17 years ago committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/merge-strategies.txt

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merge is always the current branch head. It is meant to
be used to supersede old development history of side
branches.

subtree::
This is a modified recursive strategy. When merging trees A and
B, if B corresponds to a subtree of A, B is first adjusted to
match the tree structure of A, instead of reading the trees at
the same level. This adjustment is also done to the common
ancestor tree.

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