5 This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
6 and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge
7 algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross
8 merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and
9 fast. This is the default merge strategy when pulling
13 This can only resolve two heads using 3-way merge
14 algorithm. When there are more than one common
15 ancestors that can be used for 3-way merge, it creates a
16 merged tree of the common ancestores and uses that as
17 the reference tree for the 3-way merge. This has been
18 reported to result in fewer merge conflicts without
19 causing mis-merges by tests done on actual merge commits
20 taken from Linux 2.6 kernel development history.
21 Additionally this can detect and handle merges involving
25 This resolves more than two-head case, but refuses to do
26 complex merge that needs manual resolution. It is
27 primarily meant to be used for bundling topic branch
28 heads together. This is the default merge strategy when
29 pulling more than one branch.
32 This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the
33 merge is always the current branch head. It is meant to
34 be used to supersede old development history of side