ollows it) names a stage 0 entry. During a merge, stage
1 is the common ancestor, stage 2 is the target branch&#8217;s version
(typically the current branch), and stage 3 is the version from
the branch which is being merged.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<p>Here is an illustration, by Jon Loeliger.  Both commit nodes B
and C are parents of commit node A.  Parent commits are ordered
left-to-right.</p>
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<pre>G   H   I   J
 \ /     \ /
  D