Sergei Organov [off-list ref] writes:
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?
You do not want the extra 'master' there.
quoted hunk
@@ -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
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The example is working on 'master' branch at this point and HEAD
and 'master' are equivalent there.