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merge-tools: fixed typos...
Martin Geisler -
r12804:e0e8b123 stable
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@@ -97,7 +97,7 def show_doc(ui):
97 97 ui.write("\n")
98 98
99 99 section(ui, _("Extensions"))
100 ui.write(_("This section contains help for extensions that is distributed "
100 ui.write(_("This section contains help for extensions that are distributed "
101 101 "together with Mercurial. Help for other extensions is available "
102 102 "in the help system."))
103 103 ui.write("\n\n"
@@ -7,8 +7,9 made on both branches.
7 7
8 8 The merge tools are used both for :hg:`resolve` and :hg:`merge`.
9 9
10 Usually, the merge tool tries to automatically, by combining all the
11 non-overlapping changes that occurred separately in the two different
10 Usually, the merge tool tries to automatically reconcile the files by
11 combining all the non-overlapping changes that occurred separately in
12 the two different
12 13 evolutions of the same initial base file. Furthermore, some
13 14 interactive merge programs make it easier to manually resolve
14 15 conflicting merges, either in a graphical way, or by inserting some
@@ -41,10 +42,10 merge tools are:
41 42 ``internal:dump``
42 43 Creates three versions of the files to merge, containing the
43 44 contents of local, other and base. These files can then be used to
44 perform a merge manually. If the file merged is name ``a.txt``,
45 these files will accordingly be named ``a.txt.local``,
45 perform a merge manually. If the file to be merged is named
46 ``a.txt``, these files will accordingly be named ``a.txt.local``,
46 47 ``a.txt.other`` and ``a.txt.base`` and they will be placed in the
47 same directory as the file to merge.
48 same directory as ``a.txt``.
48 49
49 50 How Mercurial decides which merge program to use
50 51
@@ -77,8 +78,8 7. The merge fails.
77 78 to merge the files using a simple merge algorithm first, to see if
78 79 they can be merged without conflicts. Only if there are conflicting
79 80 changes Mercurial will actually execute the merge program. Whether
80 to use the simple merge algorithm first can be controlled be the
81 premerge setting of the merge tool, which is enabled by default
81 to use the simple merge algorithm first can be controlled by the
82 premerge setting of the merge tool. Premerge is enabled by default
82 83 unless the file is binary or symlink.
83 84
84 85 See the merge-tools and ui sections of hgrc(5) for details on
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