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authorJustin Frankel <justin@cockos.com>2010-08-26 05:50:45 (GMT)
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merge-recursive --patience
Teach the merge-recursive strategy a --patience option to use the "patience diff" algorithm, which tends to improve results when cherry-picking a patch that reorders functions at the same time as refactoring them. To support this, struct merge_options and ll_merge_options gain an xdl_opts member, so programs can use arbitrary xdiff flags (think "XDF_IGNORE_WHITESPACE") in a git-aware merge. git merge and git rebase can be passed the -Xpatience option to use this. [jn: split from --ignore-space patch; with documentation] Signed-off-by: Justin Frankel <justin@cockos.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ the other tree did, declaring 'our' history contains all that happened in it.
theirs;;
This is opposite of 'ours'.
+patience;;
+ With this option, 'merge-recursive' spends a little extra time
+ to avoid mismerges that sometimes occur due to unimportant
+ matching lines (e.g., braces from distinct functions). Use
+ this when the branches to be merged have diverged wildly.
+ See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--patience`.
+
renormalize;;
This runs a virtual check-out and check-in of all three stages
of a file when resolving a three-way merge. This option is