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As promised, this is the "big tool rename" patch. The primary differences
since 0.99.6 are:
(1) git-*-script are no more. The commands installed do not
have any such suffix so users do not have to remember if
something is implemented as a shell script or not.
(2) Many command names with 'cache' in them are renamed with
'index' if that is what they mean.
There are backward compatibility symblic links so that you and
Porcelains can keep using the old names, but the backward
compatibility support is expected to be removed in the near
future.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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git-merge-index(1)
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v0.1, May 2005
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NAME
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git-merge-index - Runs a merge for files needing merging
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git-merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | -- | <file>\*)
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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This looks up the <file>(s) in the cache and, if there are any merge
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entries, passes the SHA1 hash for those files as arguments 1, 2, 3 (empty
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argument if no file), and <file> as argument 4. File modes for the three
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files are passed as arguments 5, 6 and 7.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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--::
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Interpret all following arguments as filenames.
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-a::
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Run merge against all files in the cache that need merging.
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-o::
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Instead of stopping at the first failed merge, do all of them
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in one shot - continue with merging even when previous merges
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returned errors, and only return the error code after all the
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merges are over.
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-q::
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Do not complain about failed merge program (the merge program
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failure usually indicates conflicts during merge). This is for
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porcelains which might want to emit custom messages.
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If "git-merge-index" is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it
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processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit
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code.
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Typically this is run with the a script calling the merge command from
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the RCS package.
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A sample script called "git-merge-one-file" is included in the
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distribution.
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ALERT ALERT ALERT! The git "merge object order" is different from the
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RCS "merge" program merge object order. In the above ordering, the
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original is first. But the argument order to the 3-way merge program
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"merge" is to have the original in the middle. Don't ask me why.
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Examples:
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torvalds@ppc970:~/merge-test> git-merge-index cat MM
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This is MM from the original tree. # original
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This is modified MM in the branch A. # merge1
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This is modified MM in the branch B. # merge2
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This is modified MM in the branch B. # current contents
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or
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torvalds@ppc970:~/merge-test> git-merge-index cat AA MM
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cat: : No such file or directory
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This is added AA in the branch A.
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This is added AA in the branch B.
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This is added AA in the branch B.
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fatal: merge program failed
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where the latter example shows how "git-merge-index" will stop trying to
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merge once anything has returned an error (ie "cat" returned an error
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for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus
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"git-merge-index" didn't even try to merge the MM thing).
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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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One-shot merge by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
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Documentation
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
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