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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-12-15 12:32:44 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-12-15 14:08:28 -0800
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docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that special
A handful of manual pages called AUTO_MERGE a "special ref", but there is nothing special about it. It merely is yet another pseudoref. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ happens:
can inspect the stages with `git ls-files -u`). The working
tree files contain the result of the merge operation; i.e. 3-way
merge results with familiar conflict markers `<<<` `===` `>>>`.
-5. A special ref `AUTO_MERGE` is written, pointing to a tree
+5. A ref named `AUTO_MERGE` is written, pointing to a tree
corresponding to the current content of the working tree (including
conflict markers for textual conflicts). Note that this ref is only
written when the 'ort' merge strategy is used (the default).