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[PATCH 7/7] doc/diff-options: explain the new --remerge-diff option

From: Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-31 02:26:53
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

From: Elijah Newren <redacted>

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <redacted>
---
 Documentation/diff-options.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index c89d530d3d1..b05f1c9f1c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ ifdef::git-log[]
 	each of the parents. Separate log entry and diff is generated
 	for each parent.
 +
+--diff-merges=remerge:::
+--diff-merges=r:::
+--remerge-diff:::
+	With this option, two-parent merge commits are remerged to
+	create a temporary tree object -- potentially containing files
+	with conflict markers and such.  A diff is then shown between
+	that temporary tree and the actual merge commit.
++
 --diff-merges=combined:::
 --diff-merges=c:::
 -c:::
-- 
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