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authorMatthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>2008-03-03 18:52:49 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-03-03 13:40:15 -0800
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Fix incorrect wording in git-merge.txt.
A merge is not necessarily with a remote branch, it can be with any commit. Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi for pointing out the problem, and to Nicolas Pitre for pointing out the fact that a merge is not necessarily with a branch head. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ HOW MERGE WORKS
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A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more
-remote branch heads, and the index file must exactly match the
+commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must
+exactly match the
tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit) when
it happens. In other words, `git-diff --cached HEAD` must
report no changes.