Re: git reset --merge documentation improvments

quoted

"Updates the files in the working tree that are different between
<commit>  and HEAD, but keeps those which are different between the
index and working tree, and finally resets the index."

There is nothing to update as long as the index is not reset.

Well then I simply don't understand what --merge does. Is it like
--keep but instead of failing when a file-to-be-overwritten has
changes it simply ignores the overwriting and continues?

Philippe