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Selecting Which Changes to Incorporate
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   You can select all unmerged changes from OLDER to YOURS for merging
into MINE with the `-e' or `--ed' option.  You can select only the
nonoverlapping unmerged changes with `-3' or `--easy-only', and you can
select only the overlapping changes with `-x' or `--overlap-only'.

   The `-e', `-3' and `-x' options select only "unmerged changes", i.e.
changes where MINE and YOURS differ; they ignore changes from OLDER to
YOURS where MINE and YOURS are identical, because they assume that such
changes have already been merged.  If this assumption is not a safe
one, you can use the `-A' or `--show-all' option (Note: Marking
Conflicts).

   Here is the output of the command `diff3' with each of these three
options (Note: Sample diff3 Input, for the complete contents of the
files).  Notice that `-e' outputs the union of the disjoint sets of
changes output by `-3' and `-x'.

   Output of `diff3 -e lao tzu tao':
     11a
     
       -- The Way of Lao-Tzu, tr. Wing-tsit Chan
     .
     8c
       so we may see their result.
     .

   Output of `diff3 -3 lao tzu tao':
     8c
       so we may see their result.
     .

   Output of `diff3 -x lao tzu tao':
     11a
     
       -- The Way of Lao-Tzu, tr. Wing-tsit Chan
     .