Documentation: edit awkward references to `git merge-recursive`
A few places in the documentation referred to the "`recursive` strategy" using the phrase "`git merge-recursive`", suggesting that it was forking subprocesses to call a toplevel builtin. Perhaps that was relevant to when rebase was a shell script, but it seems like a rather indirect way to refer to the `recursive` strategy. Simplify the references. Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Elijah Newren committed
Aug 4, 2021 at 23:50 UTC
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Documentation/git-rebase.txt
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index 8a67227846..c3edcb07e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rebase.txt
@@ -354,9 +354,8 @@ See also INCOMPATIBLE OPTIONS below.
-s <strategy>::
--strategy=<strategy>::
- Use the given merge strategy.
- If there is no `-s` option 'git merge-recursive' is used
- instead. This implies --merge.
+ Use the given merge strategy, instead of the default
+ `recursive`. This implies `--merge`.
+
Because 'git rebase' replays each commit from the working branch
on top of the <upstream> branch using the given strategy, using
Documentation/merge-options.txt
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index eb0aabd396..f819bd8dd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-options.txt
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ With --squash, --commit is not allowed, and will fail.
Use the given merge strategy; can be supplied more than
once to specify them in the order they should be tried.
If there is no `-s` option, a built-in list of strategies
- is used instead ('git merge-recursive' when merging a single
- head, 'git merge-octopus' otherwise).
+ is used instead (`recursive` when merging a single head,
+ `octopus` otherwise).
-X <option>::
--strategy-option=<option>::
Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
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index 2912de706b..5d707e952a 100644
--- a/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
+++ b/Documentation/merge-strategies.txt
@@ -51,10 +51,11 @@ patience;;
See also linkgit:git-diff[1] `--patience`.
diff-algorithm=[patience|minimal|histogram|myers];;
- Tells 'merge-recursive' to use a different diff algorithm, which
- can help avoid mismerges that occur due to unimportant matching
- lines (such as braces from distinct functions). See also
- linkgit:git-diff[1] `--diff-algorithm`.
+ Use a different diff algorithm while merging, which can help
+ avoid mismerges that occur due to unimportant matching lines
+ (such as braces from distinct functions). See also
+ linkgit:git-diff[1] `--diff-algorithm`. Defaults to the
+ `diff.algorithm` config setting.
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