From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS3215 2.6.0.0/16 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from out1.vger.email (out1.vger.email [IPv6:2620:137:e000::1:20]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5CF1F4D7 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2022 15:15:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232403AbiDPPSW (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:18:22 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:57510 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231328AbiDPPSU (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:18:20 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 513 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:15:48 PDT Received: from mail.eskimo.com (mail.eskimo.com [204.122.16.222]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C439B859 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eskimo.com (debian.eskimo.com [204.122.16.15]) by mail.eskimo.com (Postfix) with SMTP id ADDB8504C19; Sat, 16 Apr 2022 08:07:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=eskimo.com; s=default; t=1650121633; bh=qwg35VDR7N0448zAIg6TGaNWSBXTJA1Cs4gstMYHzS0=; h=From:Date:To:Subject:From; b=Ie6TMQFPnSPcWbGYQpFf1PgnDh/cDcCzlBDKINpU0kEr5QpWkUNHozb0zVcdDpFS5 ZKP12LyDlkFhbLWVpM2Lcr8mtzIsqqXbWNHz8JZjXAjla1573hmLuW5eQcz6HSNa7v RWDmcgdigmvi1YCFntBGK3ka+hgb0G/kZK3/O32g0fdzKKm+so03Yp/TXdKJALAHdB 33ovWzjpbDOqdYiy4fYsaxCzEvXZE8wXm+1xTdJtUhtJYnO7qUb/MFu4i8Q7cx1ANs vMG13lcVADG1tq6x6A8cPsul9xR8H3P/kM2KuGVOBIz0gDNN6e+bH7r3h4yi0Lg6PZ ld2cxqvx+8ckw== Received: (nullmailer pid 1637077 invoked by uid 10926); Sat, 16 Apr 2022 15:07:13 -0000 From: scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:07:09 -0400 Message-ID: <2022Apr16.1107.scs.0007@quinine2.home> To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: suggestion for git glossary: "ort" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="2022Apr16.1107.scs.0006" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.103.5 at mail.eskimo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org --2022Apr16.1107.scs.0006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-ID: <2022Apr16.1107.scs.0009@quinine2.home> I kept seeing references to "ort" in the git source code, and I had no idea what it meant. Grepping around in the Documentation tree eventually revealed: it's a new merge strategy! Suggested glossary patch attached; feel free to improve. --2022Apr16.1107.scs.0006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="glossary-content.txt.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="glossary-content.txt.patch" Content-ID: <2022Apr16.1107.scs.0011@quinine2.home> diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary= -content.txt index aa2f41f..cb0726f 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -287,6 +287,13 @@ This commit is referred to as a "merge commit", or = sometimes just a origin/name-of-upstream-branch, which you can see using `git branch -r`. =20 +[[def_ort]]ort:: + The default merge strategy when pulling or merging one branch. + An acronym for "Ostensibly Recursive's Twin", due to the fact + that it was written as a replacement for the previous default + algorithm, `recursive`. See linkgit:git-merge[1], section + "Merge Strategies". + [[def_overlay]]overlay:: Only update and add files to the working directory, but don't delete them, similar to how 'cp -R' would update the contents --2022Apr16.1107.scs.0006--