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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 | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. | ||
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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. |