From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Thomas Rast" <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
"Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify documentation on the "ours" merge strategy.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:03:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911111411.nABEBfox031023@ds9.cixit.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0911031047510.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
Make it clear that the merge strategy will discard all changes made to
the branch being merged, and not just avoid creating merge conflicts.
---
Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> If you want to use any merge strategy, you must understand what it does
> first.
Indeed. Perhaps this clarification will help the next poor soul that tries
doing what I tried?
diff --git a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
index 4365b7e..a340dc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ octopus::
ours::
This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the
- merge is always the current branch head. It is meant to
+ merge is always the current branch head, discarding any
+ changes on the merged branch. It is meant to
be used to supersede old development history of side
branches.
--
1.6.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-11 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-02 12:26 git pull --rebase and losing commits Peter Krefting
2009-11-02 15:04 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-02 21:34 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-11-02 15:10 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-11-03 7:01 ` Peter Krefting
2009-11-03 9:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-11-03 10:12 ` Peter Krefting
2009-11-11 14:03 ` Peter Krefting [this message]
2009-11-11 15:13 ` [PATCH] Clarify documentation on the "ours" merge strategy Baz
2009-11-11 20:35 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-11 20:54 ` Baz
2009-11-11 21:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-11 21:30 ` [PATCH] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2009-11-11 23:37 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-12 7:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-12 9:41 ` Peter Krefting
2009-11-14 2:12 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-11-15 9:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-16 8:20 ` Peter Krefting
2009-11-12 9:55 ` Björn Steinbrink
2009-11-15 18:25 ` [PATCH 0/3] Document and refuse rebase -s ours Thomas Rast
2009-11-15 18:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: clarify 'ours' merge strategy Thomas Rast
2009-11-15 18:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] rebase docs: clarify --merge and --strategy Thomas Rast
2009-11-15 21:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-15 21:11 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-15 18:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] rebase: refuse to rebase with -s ours Thomas Rast
2009-11-15 18:39 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-15 18:44 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-16 12:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-11-16 19:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-16 21:25 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-11-16 21:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-16 22:04 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-16 23:04 ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-11-15 21:04 ` [PATCH 0/3] Document and refuse rebase " Junio C Hamano
2009-11-15 21:13 ` Thomas Rast
2009-11-03 10:12 ` git pull --rebase and losing commits Thomas Rast
2009-11-03 4:27 ` Randal L. Schwartz
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