2.5 Invoking merge

merge [options] receiving-sibling parent other-sibling

The merge command combines the differences between a the parent and the other sibling, and the differences between the parent and the receiving sibling. It writes the result to the receiving sibling.

-A

-E

-e

Use diff3 -A, -E (default), or -e, respectively.

-p

Write to standard output instead of overwriting receiving-sibling.

-q

See Misc common options. Suppress conflict warnings.

-L label

(up to three times) Specify the conflict labels for receiving-sibling, parent and other-sibling, respectively.

-V

Note that -Vn is not a valid option for merge, in contrast to most other RCS commands (see Misc common options).