# merge-tree GIT-MERGE-TREE(1) Git Manual GIT-MERGE-TREE(1)

NAME git-merge-tree - Show three-way merge without touching index

SYNOPSIS git merge-tree

DESCRIPTION Reads three tree-ish, and output trivial merge results and conflicting stages to the standard output. This is similar to what three-way git read-tree -m does, but instead of storing the results in the index, the command outputs the entries to the standard output.

   This is meant to be used by higher level scripts to compute merge results outside of the index, and stuff the results back into the index. For this reason, the output from the command omits entries
   that match the <branch1> tree.

GIT Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.18.2 01/03/2020 GIT-MERGE-TREE(1)