The argument VERSION is a version that should be merged into the current check-out. All changes from VERSION back to the nearest common ancestor are merged. Except, if either of the --cherrypick or --backout options are used only the changes associated with the single check-in VERSION are merged. The --backout option causes the changes associated with VERSION to be removed from the current check-out rather than added. When invoked with the name "cherrypick" instead of "merge", this command works exactly like "merge --cherrypick".

Files which are renamed in the merged-in branch will be renamed in the current check-out.

If the VERSION argument is omitted, then Fossil attempts to find a recent fork on the current branch to merge.

If there are multiple VERSION arguments, then each VERSION is merged (or cherrypicked) in the order that they appear on the command-line.

Options:

--backout

Do a reverse cherrypick merge against VERSION. In other words, back out the changes that were added by VERSION.

--baseline BASELINE

Use BASELINE as the "pivot" of the merge instead of the nearest common ancestor. This allows a sequence of changes in a branch to be merged without having to merge the entire branch.

--binary GLOBPATTERN

Treat files that match GLOBPATTERN as binary and do not try to merge parallel changes. This option overrides the "binary-glob" setting.

--cherrypick

Do a cherrypick merge VERSION into the current check-out. A cherrypick merge pulls in the changes of the single check-in VERSION, rather than all changes back to the nearest common ancestor.

-f|--force

Force the merge even if it would be a no-op

--force-missing

Force the merge even if there is missing content

--integrate

Merged branch will be closed when committing

-K|--keep-merge-files

On merge conflict, retain the temporary files used for merging, named *-baseline, *-original, and *-merge.

-n|--dry-run

If given, display instead of run actions

-v|--verbose

Show additional details of the merge