# situation codes (e.g. #16) in unpack-trees.c

2 messages from 2009-08-12 to 2009-08-12. Participants: Jeff Enderwick, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20564

## Jeff Enderwick, 2009-08-12 21:05

Subject: situation codes (e.g. #16) in unpack-trees.c
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Newbie here. I'm trying to grok git's merge algorithms. Where are
those '#' codes written up (e.g. #16, #5ALT, etc)?
Is there a write-up anywhere on the merge logic?

TIA,
Jeff

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## Jeff King, 2009-08-12 21:07

Subject: Re: situation codes (e.g. #16) in unpack-trees.c
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:05:06PM -0700, Jeff Enderwick wrote:

> Newbie here. I'm trying to grok git's merge algorithms. Where are
> those '#' codes written up (e.g. #16, #5ALT, etc)?
> Is there a write-up anywhere on the merge logic?

Try Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt.

-Peff

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