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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index bfde507e0..64a820bf6 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1254,16 +1254,15 @@ these three "file stages" represents a different version of the file: ------------------------------------------------- $ git show :1:file.txt # the file in a common ancestor of both branches -$ git show :2:file.txt # the version from HEAD, but including any - # nonconflicting changes from MERGE_HEAD -$ git show :3:file.txt # the version from MERGE_HEAD, but including any - # nonconflicting changes from HEAD. +$ git show :2:file.txt # the version from HEAD. +$ git show :3:file.txt # the version from MERGE_HEAD. ------------------------------------------------- -Since the stage 2 and stage 3 versions have already been updated with -nonconflicting changes, the only remaining differences between them are -the important ones; thus linkgit:git-diff[1] can use the information in -the index to show only those conflicts. +When you ask linkgit:git-diff[1] to show the conflicts, it runs a +three-way diff between the conflicted merge results in the work tree with +stages 2 and 3 to show only hunks whose contents come from both sides, +mixed (in other words, when a hunk's merge results come only from stage 2, +that part is not conflicting and is not shown. Same for stage 3). The diff above shows the differences between the working-tree version of file.txt and the stage 2 and stage 3 versions. So instead of preceding |