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Re: Merge format documented?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mar 23, 2009, 03:50 UTC
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Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> writes:
> is the format that git normally uses for indicating merge conflicts in files 
> (the <<< === >>> markers) documented somewhere?  How exactly does it differ 
> from the diff3 format (<<< ||| === >>>)?  Diff3's -m mode seems to come close 
> to what git does, except that git doesn't produce the ||| section:

It is an imitation of output from "merge" program of RCS suite Paul you know maintains ;-) Recent versions of git supports merge.conflictstyle configuration variable and --conflict option in 'git-checkout' to write the conflicts out in a format that is an imitation of "diff3 -m" output.

As far as I know, neither "git" format is documented anywhere, but I didn't find an official format specification of the "upstream" formats, and that is why I keep saying "imitation" in the above paragraph ;-)

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