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405 <h1>
406 git-merge-index(1) Manual Page
407 </h1>
408 <h2>NAME</h2>
409 <div class="sectionbody">
410 <p>git-merge-index -
411 Run a merge for files needing merging
412 </p>
413 </div>
414 </div>
415 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
416 <div class="sectionbody">
417 <div class="verseblock">
418 <div class="verseblock-content"><em>git merge-index</em> [-o] [-q] &lt;merge-program&gt; (-a | [--] &lt;file&gt;*)</div>
419 <div class="verseblock-attribution">
420 </div></div>
421 </div>
422 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
423 <div class="sectionbody">
424 <div class="paragraph"><p>This looks up the &lt;file&gt;(s) in the index and, if there are any merge
425 entries, passes the SHA1 hash for those files as arguments 1, 2, 3 (empty
426 argument if no file), and &lt;file&gt; as argument 4. File modes for the three
427 files are passed as arguments 5, 6 and 7.</p></div>
428 </div>
429 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
430 <div class="sectionbody">
431 <div class="dlist"><dl>
432 <dt class="hdlist1">
434 </dt>
435 <dd>
437 Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
438 </p>
439 </dd>
440 <dt class="hdlist1">
442 </dt>
443 <dd>
445 Run merge against all files in the index that need merging.
446 </p>
447 </dd>
448 <dt class="hdlist1">
450 </dt>
451 <dd>
453 Instead of stopping at the first failed merge, do all of them
454 in one shot - continue with merging even when previous merges
455 returned errors, and only return the error code after all the
456 merges.
457 </p>
458 </dd>
459 <dt class="hdlist1">
461 </dt>
462 <dd>
464 Do not complain about a failed merge program (a merge program
465 failure usually indicates conflicts during the merge). This is for
466 porcelains which might want to emit custom messages.
467 </p>
468 </dd>
469 </dl></div>
470 <div class="paragraph"><p>If <em>git merge-index</em> is called with multiple &lt;file&gt;s (or -a) then it
471 processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit
472 code.</p></div>
473 <div class="paragraph"><p>Typically this is run with a script calling git&#8217;s imitation of
474 the <em>merge</em> command from the RCS package.</p></div>
475 <div class="paragraph"><p>A sample script called <em>git merge-one-file</em> is included in the
476 distribution.</p></div>
477 <div class="paragraph"><p>ALERT ALERT ALERT! The git "merge object order" is different from the
478 RCS <em>merge</em> program merge object order. In the above ordering, the
479 original is first. But the argument order to the 3-way merge program
480 <em>merge</em> is to have the original in the middle. Don&#8217;t ask me why.</p></div>
481 <div class="paragraph"><p>Examples:</p></div>
482 <div class="literalblock">
483 <div class="content">
484 <pre><tt>torvalds@ppc970:~/merge-test&gt; git merge-index cat MM
485 This is MM from the original tree. # original
486 This is modified MM in the branch A. # merge1
487 This is modified MM in the branch B. # merge2
488 This is modified MM in the branch B. # current contents</tt></pre>
489 </div></div>
490 <div class="paragraph"><p>or</p></div>
491 <div class="literalblock">
492 <div class="content">
493 <pre><tt>torvalds@ppc970:~/merge-test&gt; git merge-index cat AA MM
494 cat: : No such file or directory
495 This is added AA in the branch A.
496 This is added AA in the branch B.
497 This is added AA in the branch B.
498 fatal: merge program failed</tt></pre>
499 </div></div>
500 <div class="paragraph"><p>where the latter example shows how <em>git merge-index</em> will stop trying to
501 merge once anything has returned an error (i.e., <tt>cat</tt> returned an error
502 for the AA file, because it didn&#8217;t exist in the original, and thus
503 <em>git merge-index</em> didn&#8217;t even try to merge the MM thing).</p></div>
504 </div>
505 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
506 <div class="sectionbody">
507 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
508 </div>
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511 Last updated 2011-07-23 00:49:30 UTC
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