3 Perform the merge and commit the result. This option can
4 be used to override --no-commit.
6 With --no-commit perform the merge but pretend the merge
7 failed and do not autocommit, to give the user a chance to
8 inspect and further tweak the merge result before committing.
12 Invoke editor before committing successful merge to further
13 edit the default merge message. The `--no-edit` option can be
14 used to accept the auto-generated message (this is generally
15 discouraged) when merging an annotated tag, in which case
16 `git merge` automatically spawns the editor so that the result
17 of the GPG verification of the tag can be seen.
19 Older scripts may depend on the historical behaviour of not allowing the
20 user to edit the merge log message. They will see an editor opened when
21 they run `git merge` to merge an annotated tag. To make it easier to adjust
22 such scripts to the updated behaviour, the environment variable
23 `GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT` can be set to `no` at the beginning of them.
26 When the merge resolves as a fast-forward, only update the branch
27 pointer, without creating a merge commit. This is the default
31 Create a merge commit even when the merge resolves as a
35 Refuse to merge and exit with a non-zero status unless the
36 current `HEAD` is already up-to-date or the merge can be
37 resolved as a fast-forward.
41 In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
42 one-line descriptions from at most <n> actual commits that are being
43 merged. See also linkgit:git-fmt-merge-msg[1].
45 With --no-log do not list one-line descriptions from the
46 actual commits being merged.
52 Show a diffstat at the end of the merge. The diffstat is also
53 controlled by the configuration option merge.stat.
55 With -n or --no-stat do not show a diffstat at the end of the
60 Produce the working tree and index state as if a real
61 merge happened (except for the merge information),
62 but do not actually make a commit or
63 move the `HEAD`, nor record `$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD` to
64 cause the next `git commit` command to create a merge
65 commit. This allows you to create a single commit on
66 top of the current branch whose effect is the same as
67 merging another branch (or more in case of an octopus).
69 With --no-squash perform the merge and commit the result. This
70 option can be used to override --squash.
73 --strategy=<strategy>::
74 Use the given merge strategy; can be supplied more than
75 once to specify them in the order they should be tried.
76 If there is no `-s` option, a built-in list of strategies
77 is used instead ('git merge-recursive' when merging a single
78 head, 'git merge-octopus' otherwise).
81 --strategy-option=<option>::
82 Pass merge strategy specific option through to the merge
87 Synonyms to --stat and --no-stat; these are deprecated and will be
88 removed in the future.
93 Operate quietly. Implies --no-progress.
101 Turn progress on/off explicitly. If neither is specified,
102 progress is shown if standard error is connected to a terminal.
103 Note that not all merge strategies may support progress