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+git-merge-index(1)
+==================
+
+NAME
+----
+git-merge-index - Runs a merge for files needing merging
+
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+'git-merge-index' [-o] [-q] <merge-program> (-a | -- | <file>\*)
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+This looks up the <file>(s) in the index and, if there are any merge
+entries, passes the SHA1 hash for those files as arguments 1, 2, 3 (empty
+argument if no file), and <file> as argument 4.  File modes for the three
+files are passed as arguments 5, 6 and 7.
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+--::
+	Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
+
+-a::
+	Run merge against all files in the index that need merging.
+
+-o::
+	Instead of stopping at the first failed merge, do all of them
+	in one shot - continue with merging even when previous merges
+	returned errors, and only return the error code after all the
+	merges are over.
+
+-q::
+	Do not complain about failed merge program (the merge program
+	failure usually indicates conflicts during merge). This is for
+	porcelains which might want to emit custom messages.
+
+If "git-merge-index" is called with multiple <file>s (or -a) then it
+processes them in turn only stopping if merge returns a non-zero exit
+code.
+
+Typically this is run with the a script calling the merge command from
+the RCS package.
+
+A sample script called "git-merge-one-file" is included in the
+distribution.
+
+ALERT ALERT ALERT! The git "merge object order" is different from the
+RCS "merge" program merge object order. In the above ordering, the
+original is first. But the argument order to the 3-way merge program
+"merge" is to have the original in the middle. Don't ask me why.
+
+Examples:
+
+  torvalds@ppc970:~/merge-test> git-merge-index cat MM
+  This is MM from the original tree.			# original
+  This is modified MM in the branch A.			# merge1
+  This is modified MM in the branch B.			# merge2
+  This is modified MM in the branch B.			# current contents
+
+or 
+
+  torvalds@ppc970:~/merge-test> git-merge-index cat AA MM
+  cat: : No such file or directory
+  This is added AA in the branch A.
+  This is added AA in the branch B.
+  This is added AA in the branch B.
+  fatal: merge program failed
+
+where the latter example shows how "git-merge-index" will stop trying to
+merge once anything has returned an error (ie "cat" returned an error
+for the AA file, because it didn't exist in the original, and thus
+"git-merge-index" didn't even try to merge the MM thing).
+
+Author
+------
+Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+One-shot merge by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
+
+Documentation
+--------------
+Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+
+GIT
+---
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+