Re: [RFC PATCH 7/7] merge: fix misleading pre-merge check documentation

2018-06-06 Thread Elijah Newren
On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 11:58 PM, Elijah Newren wrote: > builtin/merge.c contains this important requirement for merge strategies: > > ...the index must be in sync with the head commit. The strategies are > responsible to ensure this. > > However, Documentation/git-merge.txt says: > >

[RFC PATCH 7/7] merge: fix misleading pre-merge check documentation

2018-06-03 Thread Elijah Newren
builtin/merge.c contains this important requirement for merge strategies: ...the index must be in sync with the head commit. The strategies are responsible to ensure this. However, Documentation/git-merge.txt says: ...[merge will] abort if there are any changes registered in the