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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

  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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