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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-12-15 09:39:47 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-12-15 09:39:47 -0800
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Merge branch 'en/zdiff3'
"Zealous diff3" style of merge conflict presentation has been added. * en/zdiff3: update documentation for new zdiff3 conflictStyle xdiff: implement a zealous diff3, or "zdiff3"
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@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ conflicts before writing them to the rerere database.
Different conflict styles and branch names are normalized by stripping
the labels from the conflict markers, and removing the common ancestor
-version from the `diff3` conflict style. Branches that are merged
-in different order are normalized by sorting the conflict hunks. More
-on each of those steps in the following sections.
+version from the `diff3` or `zdiff3` conflict styles. Branches that
+are merged in different order are normalized by sorting the conflict
+hunks. More on each of those steps in the following sections.
Once these two normalization operations are applied, a conflict ID is
calculated based on the normalized conflict, which is later used by
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ get a conflict like the following:
>>>>>>> AC
Doing the analogous with AC2 (forking a branch ABAC2 off of branch AB
-and then merging branch AC2 into it), using the diff3 conflict style,
-we get a conflict like the following:
+and then merging branch AC2 into it), using the diff3 or zdiff3
+conflict style, we get a conflict like the following:
<<<<<<< HEAD
B