merge-strategies.txt: add coverage of the ort merge strategy

Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Elijah Newren 2021-08-04 23:50:53 +00:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -95,6 +95,20 @@ subtree[=<path>];;
is prefixed (or stripped from the beginning) to make the shape of
two trees to match.
ort::
This is meant as a drop-in replacement for the `recursive`
algorithm (as reflected in its acronym -- "Ostensibly
Recursive's Twin"), and will likely replace it in the future.
It fixes corner cases that the `recursive` strategy handles
suboptimally, and is significantly faster in large
repositories -- especially when many renames are involved.
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The `ort` strategy takes all the same options as `recursive`.
However, it ignores three of those options: `no-renames`,
`patience` and `diff-algorithm`. It always runs with rename
detection (it handles it much faster than `recursive` does), and
it specifically uses `diff-algorithm=histogram`.
resolve::
This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch
and another branch you pulled from) using a 3-way merge