From: Alex Riesen <fork0@t-online.de>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:43:24 GMT
Subject: Re: RFH: refactor read-tree
Message-ID: <20060709124324.GE5919@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607082011060.5623@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds, Sun, Jul 09, 2006 05:15:41 +0200:
> The basic idea is that "branch1" should be your current branch, and it 
> obviously is also expected to match (more or less) the current index. So 
> you can do a merge by
> 
>  - reading in "branch1" into the index:
> 
> 	GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp-index git-read-tree -m branch1

what is "-m" here for?