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<title>git-merge-file(1)</title>
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<h1>
git-merge-file(1) Manual Page
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<h2>NAME</h2>
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<p>git-merge-file -
Run a three-way file merge
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<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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<div class="content"><em>git-merge-file</em> [-L &lt;current-name&gt; [-L &lt;base-name&gt; [-L &lt;other-name&gt;]]]
[-p|--stdout] [-q|--quiet] &lt;current-file&gt; &lt;base-file&gt; &lt;other-file&gt;</div></div>
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<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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<p>git-file-merge incorporates all changes that lead from the <tt>&lt;base-file&gt;</tt>
to <tt>&lt;other-file&gt;</tt> into <tt>&lt;current-file&gt;</tt>. The result ordinarily goes into
<tt>&lt;current-file&gt;</tt>. git-merge-file is useful for combining separate changes
to an original. Suppose <tt>&lt;base-file&gt;</tt> is the original, and both
<tt>&lt;current-file&gt;</tt> and <tt>&lt;other-file&gt;</tt> are modifications of <tt>&lt;base-file&gt;</tt>.
Then git-merge-file combines both changes.</p>
<p>A conflict occurs if both <tt>&lt;current-file&gt;</tt> and <tt>&lt;other-file&gt;</tt> have changes
in a common segment of lines. If a conflict is found, git-merge-file
normally outputs a warning and brackets the conflict with &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; and
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; lines. A typical conflict will look like this:</p>
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<pre><tt>&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; A
lines in file A
=======
lines in file B
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; B</tt></pre>
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<p>If there are conflicts, the user should edit the result and delete one of
the alternatives.</p>
<p>The exit value of this program is negative on error, and the number of
conflicts otherwise. If the merge was clean, the exit value is 0.</p>
<p>git-merge-file is designed to be a minimal clone of RCS merge, that is, it
implements all of RCS merge's functionality which is needed by
<a href="git.html">git(1)</a>.</p>
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<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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-L &lt;label&gt;
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<p>
This option may be given up to three times, and
specifies labels to be used in place of the
corresponding file names in conflict reports. That is,
<tt>git-merge-file -L x -L y -L z a b c</tt> generates output that
looks like it came from files x, y and z instead of
from files a, b and c.
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<dt>
-p
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<p>
Send results to standard output instead of overwriting
<tt>&lt;current-file&gt;</tt>.
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<dt>
-q
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<dd>
<p>
Quiet; do not warn about conflicts.
</p>
</dd>
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<h2>EXAMPLES</h2>
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git merge-file README.my README README.upstream
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<dd>
<p>
combines the changes of README.my and README.upstream since README,
tries to merge them and writes the result into README.my.
</p>
</dd>
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git merge-file -L a -L b -L c tmp/a123 tmp/b234 tmp/c345
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<p>
merges tmp/a123 and tmp/c345 with the base tmp/b234, but uses labels
<tt>a</tt> and <tt>c</tt> instead of <tt>tmp/a123</tt> and <tt>tmp/c345</tt>.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<h2>Author</h2>
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<p>Written by Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;</p>
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<h2>Documentation</h2>
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<p>Documentation by Johannes Schindelin and the git-list &lt;git@vger.kernel.org&gt;,
with parts copied from the original documentation of RCS merge.</p>
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<h2>GIT</h2>
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<p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(7)</a> suite</p>
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