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can inspect the stages with `git ls-files -u`). The working
tree files contain the result of the merge operation; i.e. 3-way
merge results with familiar conflict markers `<<<` `===` `>>>`.
-5. A special ref `AUTO_MERGE` is written, pointing to a tree
+5. A ref named `AUTO_MERGE` is written, pointing to a tree
corresponding to the current content of the working tree (including
conflict markers for textual conflicts). Note that this ref is only
written when the 'ort' merge strategy is used (the default).