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diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge.txt b/Documentation/git-merge.txt index 0c9ad7f..c136b10 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-merge.txt @@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ HOW MERGE WORKS --------------- A merge is always between the current `HEAD` and one or more -remote branch heads, and the index file must exactly match the +commits (usually, branch head or tag), and the index file must +exactly match the tree of `HEAD` commit (i.e. the contents of the last commit) when it happens. In other words, `git-diff --cached HEAD` must report no changes. |