doc: merge-tree: improve example script

• Provide a commit message in the example command.

  The command will hang since it is waiting for a commit message on
  stdin.  Which is usable but not straightforward enough since this is
  example code.
• Use `||` directly since that is more straightforward than checking the
  last exit status.

  Also use `echo` and `exit` since `die` is not defined.
• Expose variable declarations.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt
index 84cb2edf6d..0b6a8a19b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt
@@ -211,9 +211,15 @@ linkgit:git-commit-tree[1], linkgit:git-write-tree[1],
 linkgit:git-update-ref[1], and linkgit:git-mktag[1].  Thus, it can be
 used as a part of a series of steps such as:
 
-       NEWTREE=$(git merge-tree --write-tree $BRANCH1 $BRANCH2)
-       test $? -eq 0 || die "There were conflicts..."
-       NEWCOMMIT=$(git commit-tree $NEWTREE -p $BRANCH1 -p $BRANCH2)
+       vi message.txt
+       BRANCH1=refs/heads/test
+       BRANCH2=main
+       NEWTREE=$(git merge-tree --write-tree $BRANCH1 $BRANCH2) || {
+           echo "There were conflicts..." 1>&2
+           exit 1
+       }
+       NEWCOMMIT=$(git commit-tree $NEWTREE -F message.txt \
+           -p $BRANCH1 -p $BRANCH2)
        git update-ref $BRANCH1 $NEWCOMMIT
 
 Note that when the exit status is non-zero, `NEWTREE` in this sequence