[PATCH] core-tutorial: Use new syntax for git-merge.

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To: <git@...>
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 3:54 pm

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?

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Documentation/core-tutorial.txt | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt
index d8e78ac..02255d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/core-tutorial.txt
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ 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
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ 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
@@ -1607,8 +1607,8 @@ in both of them. You could merge in 'diff-fix' first and then
'commit-fix' next, like this:

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-$ 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
------------

Which would result in:
--
1.5.3.4

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To: Sergei Organov <osv@...>
Cc: <git@...>
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 4:05 pm

The example is working on 'master' branch at this point and HEAD
and 'master' are equivalent there.
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