mismerge
English
Etymology
mis- + merge
Verb
mismerge (third-person singular simple present mismerges, present participle mismerging, simple past and past participle mismerged)
- To merge incorrectly.
- 1994, Majid Rabbani, Robert J. Safranek, Image and Video Compression, page 262:
- This merge criterion guarantees that regions whose properties have been drastically altered by previous merges are not mismerged on the basis of their original properties .
- 2013, Makoto Nagao, Takashi Matsuyama, A Structural Analysis of Complex Aerial Photographs, page 162:
- Fig. 7.10 An irregular-shaped region with a "bottle-neck"; two regions R1 and R2 are mismerged into one elementary region.
- 2013, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection, Making Sense of Consumer Credit Reports, page 100:
- Thus, they have been known to mismerge files when the consumers' names are similar and they share seven of nine digits in their SSN.
Noun
mismerge (countable and uncountable, plural mismerges)
- The act or process of mismerging.
- 2007, Jason Wall, Lisa J. Vollmer, What to Do with Your Psychology Or Sociology Degree, page 139:
- Spell-check also won't protect you against the famous "mismerge” that has sealed many a candidate's fate (you've described how your fastidious attention to detail will make you a valuable asset to Random House — in your cover letter to Scholastic).
- 2007, United States. Congress. House Committee on Financial Services, Credit reports, page 63:
- Until that identifying segment is corrected or suppressed, or unless the CRA manually edits the file, the mismerge will continue and likely become worse.
- 2016, Jakub Narebski, Mastering Git, page 217:
- Sometimes, mismerges occur due to unimportant matching lines (for example, braces from distinct functions).