# HG changeset patch # User Steve Borho # Date 2010-10-25 19:34:49 # Node ID 830be2c576262c81af39ac3113106d3a120d8cc4 # Parent c82056f2509f1e86df3bc7c80581d1775fc6a4c5 help: improve wording of internal:merge and internal:fail diff --git a/mercurial/help/merge-tools.txt b/mercurial/help/merge-tools.txt --- a/mercurial/help/merge-tools.txt +++ b/mercurial/help/merge-tools.txt @@ -35,13 +35,14 @@ There are a some internal merge tools wh merge tools are: ``internal:merge`` - Uses the internal non-interactive simple merge algorithm for merging files. - It will fail if there are any conflicts. + Uses the internal non-interactive simple merge algorithm for merging + files. It will fail if there are any conflicts and leave markers in + the partially merged file. ``internal:fail`` Rather than attempting to merge files that were modified on both - branches, it marks these files as unresolved. Then the resolve - command must be used to mark files resolved. + branches, it marks them as unresolved. The resolve command must be + used to resolve these conflicts. ``internal:local`` Uses the local version of files as the merged version.