Anc / Our / Thr represent the ancestor / ours / theirs side of a merge from branch "branch" into HEAD. Workdir represents the expected files in the working directory. Index represents the expected files in the index, with stage markers. Anc Our Thr Workdir Index 1 D D D/F D/F D/F [0] 2 D D+ D~HEAD (mod/del) D/F [0] D/F D/F D [1] D [2] 3 D D D/F D/F [0] D/F 4 D D+ D~branch (mod/del) D/F [0] D/F D/F D [1] D [3] 5 D D/F (add/add) D/F [2] D/F D/F [3] D/F 6 D/F D/F D D [0] D 7 D/F D/F+ D/F (mod/del) D/F [1] D D~branch (fil/dir) D/F [2] D [3] 8 D/F D/F D D [0] D 9 D/F D/F+ D/F (mod/del) D/F [1] D D~HEAD (fil/dir) D [2] D/F [3] 10 D/F D/F (fil/dir) D/F [0] D D~HEAD D [2] D