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How diff3
Merges Incomplete Lines
With -m
, incomplete lines (see Incomplete Lines) are simply
copied to the output as they are found; if the merged output ends in an
conflict and one of the input files ends in an incomplete
line, succeeding |||||||
, =======
or >>>>>>>
brackets appear somewhere other than the start of a line because
they are appended to the incomplete line.
Without -m
, if an ed
script option is specified and an
incomplete line is found, diff3
generates a warning and acts as
if a newline had been present.