title: What are git's merge strategies?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/366860/when-would-you-use-the-different-git-merge-strategies">When would you use the different git merge strategies?</a>  </p>
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  <p>When git merges files I'm working on, I see:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy
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  <p>What exactly is the recursive strategy? What other strategies are there (if any)? And what would be the benefit of using one over the other? Do different strategies have different performances? Or could two different strategies result in different merge results?</p>