How do I label conflict blocks in merge-recursive output?

From: しらいしななこ <nanako3@bluebottle.com>
Date: Jun 29, 2007, 14:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20070629232849.6117@nanako3.bluebottle.com>

Hi, I am updating my 'git-save' script and have a question.

When I play back the state previously recorded, I run:

   $ git-merge-recursive $base -- HEAD $stash

This is done after getting the $base (the state the stash was made from), and $stash (the state of the interrupted work recorded in the stash) in these variables. When there are conflicts, I see '<<<<<<<' and '>>>>>>>' markers in the merged file.

A trouble I am seeing is that there are large hexadecimal string after these markers, like this:

   <<<<<<< 13bd5d46b4a5d4ef44c53fab11e74801c18b16d0:A
   side
   revision
   =======
   local
   modification
   >>>>>>> 9aa4ad6a3bdf5340bed969f6e14abb4e07e794f7:A

I do not know what object these are, and I do not think it is useful to show them to the user. I want them to say something more useful.

In a real conflict after a 'git-pull', I think I saw nicer labels that are not hexadecimal strings after these markers.

How do I tell merge-recursive to do that? I tried to read the documentation for merge-recursive but there is no manual page.

TIA

-- 
Nanako Shiraishi
http://ivory.ap.teacup.com/nanako3/

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