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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2012-09-14 22:32:14 -0700
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This option forces conflicting hunks to be auto-resolved cleanly by
favoring 'our' version. Changes from the other tree that do not
conflict with our side are reflected to the merge result.
+ For a binary file, the entire contents are taken from our side.
+
This should not be confused with the 'ours' merge strategy, which does not
even look at what the other tree contains at all. It discards everything
the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it.
theirs;;
- This is opposite of 'ours'.
+ This is the opposite of 'ours'.
patience;;
With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time