Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] merge-ll: Cleanup merge driver temporaries after

> > Hmm. I wonder if leaving the files could actually be a _feature_. If you
> > completed the merge with the external tool but we barfed reading it back
> > in, would it be useful to leave the file in place? It's possible, I
> > suppose, but I think it is more likely to be a nuisance (and we already
> > delete it for things like read() errors, just not anything that would
> > cause us to die()).
> 
> From the user perspective, this is unnecessary. (Potentially useful for
> debugging the merge tool.)
> For the former, the whole merge can retried (after restoring state), the
> latter is quite rare and can be worked around easily when the merge tool is
> under development.