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authorJon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>2005-11-06 10:26:07 -0600
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-11-06 10:31:48 -0800
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Refactor merge strategies into separate includable file.
Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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+MERGE STRATEGIES
+----------------
+
+resolve::
+ This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
+ and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge
+ algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross
+ merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and
+ fast. This is the default merge strategy when pulling
+ one branch.
+
+recursive::
+ This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
+ algorithm. When there are more than one common
+ ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
+ merged tree of the common ancestores and uses that as
+ the reference tree for the 3-way merge. This has been
+ reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
+ causing mis-merges by tests done on actual merge commits
+ taken from Linux 2.6 kernel development history.
+ Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving
+ renames.
+
+octopus::
+ This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do
+ complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is
+ primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch
+ heads together. This is the default merge strategy when
+ pulling more than one branch.
+
+ours::
+ This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the
+ merge is always the current branch head. It is meant to
+ be used to supersede old development history of side
+ branches.