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authorElijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>2021-08-04 05:38:02 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2021-08-05 15:35:02 -0700
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Update docs for change of default merge backend
Make it clear that `ort` is the default merge strategy now rather than `recursive`, including moving `ort` to the front of the list of merge strategies. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -3190,7 +3190,7 @@ that *updated* thing--the old state that you added originally ends up
not being pointed to by any commit or tree, so it's now a dangling blob
object.
-Similarly, when the "recursive" merge strategy runs, and finds that
+Similarly, when the "ort" merge strategy runs, and finds that
there are criss-cross merges and thus more than one merge base (which is
fairly unusual, but it does happen), it will generate one temporary
midway tree (or possibly even more, if you had lots of criss-crossing