From: Sergei Organov Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:54:02 +0000 (+0300) Subject: core-tutorial: Use new syntax for git-merge. X-Git-Tag: v1.5.3.5~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ba17892ddc85c0ffe8fecd600c29cb38ec7e5587;p=git.git core-tutorial: Use new syntax for git-merge. "git-merge HEAD " is still supported but we shouldn't encourage its use. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt index 6b2590d07..df147b5e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt @@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ script called `git merge`, which wants to know which branches you want to resolve and what the merge is all about: ------------ -$ git merge "Merge work in mybranch" HEAD mybranch +$ git merge -m "Merge work in mybranch" mybranch ------------ where the first argument is going to be used as the commit message if @@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ to the `master` branch. Let's go back to `mybranch`, and run ------------ $ git checkout mybranch -$ git merge "Merge upstream changes." HEAD master +$ git merge -m "Merge upstream changes." master ------------ This outputs something like this (the actual commit object names @@ -1613,8 +1613,8 @@ 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' diff-fix +$ git merge -m 'Merge fix in commit-fix' commit-fix ------------ Which would result in: