[PATCH 2/2] rerere: add not about files with existing conflict markers

From: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 24, 2018, 22:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20180824221005.5983-2-t.gummerer@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180824221005.5983-1-t.gummerer@gmail.com>

When a file contains lines that look like conflict markers, 'git rerere' may fail not be able to record a conflict resolution. Emphasize that in the man page.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
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Not sure if there may be a better place in the man page for this, but this is the best I could come up with.

 Documentation/git-rerere.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
index 031f31fa47..036ea11528 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rerere.txt
@@ -211,6 +211,12 @@ would conflict the same way as the test merge you resolved earlier.
 'git rerere' will be run by 'git rebase' to help you resolve this
 conflict.
 
+[NOTE]
+'git rerere' relies on the conflict markers in the file to detect the
+conflict.  If the file already contains lines that look the same as
+lines with conflict markers, 'git rerere' may fail to record a
+conflict resolution.
+
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite

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