From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:05:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] core-tutorial: Use new syntax for git-merge. Message-ID: <7v640ol667.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <87lk9k4bvp.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> Sergei Organov writes: > The patch below turns core-tutorial to use new syntax for > git-merge. Please take close look at the last diff chunk, -- I'm not sure I > got it right as it didn't have HEAD in the original version, -- was it already > wrong before the patch? You do not want the extra 'master' there. > @@ -1607,8 +1607,8 @@ in both of them. You could merge in 'diff-fix' first and then > 'commit-fix' next, like this: > > ------------ > -$ git merge 'Merge fix in diff-fix' master diff-fix > -$ git merge 'Merge fix in commit-fix' master commit-fix > +$ git merge -m 'Merge fix in diff-fix' master diff-fix > +$ git merge -m 'Merge fix in commit-fix' master commit-fix > ------------ The example is working on 'master' branch at this point and HEAD and 'master' are equivalent there.