Re: [PATCH] Documentation: make 3-way merge warning more generic

2017-04-01 Thread Junio C Hamano
"brian m. carlson" writes: > With the strategies that use 3-way merge (including the default, > 'recursive'), > -if a change is made on both branches, but later reverted on one of the > -branches, that change will be present in the merged result; some people find > -this behavior confusing. It

[PATCH] Documentation: make 3-way merge warning more generic

2017-04-01 Thread brian m. carlson
The documentation for merge strategies noted that if a change was reverted on only one branch of a merge, the resultant merge would contain the change. However, similar surprising behavior can occur where cherry-picking only one commit from a series to the other branch can cause conflicts. Adjust