conflict-marker-size: add test and docs

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t6026-merge-attr.sh b/t/t6026-merge-attr.sh
index 1ba0a25223..5e439972be 100755
--- a/t/t6026-merge-attr.sh
+++ b/t/t6026-merge-attr.sh
@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ test_expect_success 'check merge result in working tree' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'retry the merge with longer context' '
+	echo text conflict-marker-size=32 >>.gitattributes &&
+	git checkout -m text &&
+	sed -ne "/^\([<=>]\)\1\1\1*/{
+		s/ .*$//
+		p
+	}" >actual text &&
+	grep ">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>" actual &&
+	grep "================================" actual &&
+	grep "<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<" actual
+'
+
 cat >./custom-merge <<\EOF
 #!/bin/sh