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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-28 14:38:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-28 14:38:17 -0700 |
| commit | f1c8d8338f54c5aec18f4d0efa37cec30aafe12a (patch) | |
| tree | 3e5186091020934412d318b906d4f3eeafcfc75f /Documentation | |
| parent | 436b60ce7aac4cf8e496c57c9baae46094571b22 (diff) | |
| parent | 77c72780edfa5e3858423366fc91699724793b39 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'yd/doc-merge-annotated-tag'
Document the 1.7.9 feature to merge a signed tag and keep that in
the mergetag header in the resulting commit better.
* yd/doc-merge-annotated-tag:
Documentation: merging a tag is a special case
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-merge.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/merge-options.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index c852a2677..42391f2ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -170,6 +170,30 @@ happens: If you tried a merge which resulted in complex conflicts and want to start over, you can recover with `git merge --abort`. +MERGING TAG +----------- + +When merging an annotated (and possibly signed) tag, Git always +creates a merge commit even if a fast-forward merge is possible, and +the commit message template is prepared with the tag message. +Additionally, if the tag is signed, the signature check is reported +as a comment in the message template. See also linkgit:git-tag[1]. + +When you want to just integrate with the work leading to the commit +that happens to be tagged, e.g. synchronizing with an upstream +release point, you may not want to make an unnecessary merge commit. + +In such a case, you can "unwrap" the tag yourself before feeding it +to `git merge`, or pass `--ff-only` when you do not have any work on +your own. e.g. + +--- +git fetch origin +git merge v1.2.3^0 +git merge --ff-only v1.2.3 +--- + + HOW CONFLICTS ARE PRESENTED --------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/merge-options.txt b/Documentation/merge-options.txt index 0bcbe0ac3..34a844582 100644 --- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ set to `no` at the beginning of them. --no-ff:: Create a merge commit even when the merge resolves as a - fast-forward. + fast-forward. This is the default behaviour when merging an + annotated (and possibly signed) tag. --ff-only:: Refuse to merge and exit with a non-zero status unless the |