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Documentation: merge: add an overview

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The reader unfamiliar with the concepts of branching and merging
would have been completely lost.  Try to help him with a diagram.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
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DESCRIPTION
-----------
Merges the history specified by <commit> into HEAD, optionally using a
specific merge strategy.
Incorporates changes from the named commits (since the time their
histories diverged from the current branch) into the current
branch. This command is used by 'git pull' to incorporate changes
from another repository and can be used by hand to merge changes
from one branch into another.
Assume the following history exists and the current branch is
"`master`":
------------
A---B---C topic
/
D---E---F---G master
------------
Then "`git merge topic`" will replay the changes made on the
`topic` branch since it diverged from `master` (i.e., `E`) until
its current commit (`C`) on top of `master`, and record the result
in a new commit along with the names of the two parent commits and
a log message from the user describing the changes.
------------
A---B---C topic
/ \
D---E---F---G---H master
------------
The second syntax (<msg> `HEAD` <commit>...) is supported for
historical reasons. Do not use it from the command line or in