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Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>maint
Jon Loeliger
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Junio C Hamano
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MERGE STRATEGIES |
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resolve:: |
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This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch |
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and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge |
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algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross |
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merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and |
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fast. This is the default merge strategy when pulling |
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one branch. |
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recursive:: |
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This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge |
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algorithm. When there are more than one common |
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ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a |
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merged tree of the common ancestores and uses that as |
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the reference tree for the 3-way merge. This has been |
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reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without |
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causing mis-merges by tests done on actual merge commits |
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taken from Linux 2.6 kernel development history. |
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Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving |
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renames. |
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octopus:: |
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This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do |
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complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is |
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primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch |
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heads together. This is the default merge strategy when |
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pulling more than one branch. |
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ours:: |
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This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the |
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merge is always the current branch head. It is meant to |
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be used to supersede old development history of side |
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branches. |
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