omitted test scripts?

> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:59 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>>Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>git-read-tree -m doesn't handle the case when a file is removed from
>>>one branch and unmodified in the other, which is what happens in your
>>>test. For each of these removed files, git-merge-cache will call
>>>gitmergeonefile.py which calls 'git-update-cache --remove'.
>>>
>>>An improvement would be to make git-read-tree smarter...
>>
>>I think this was once discussed but the primary reason for the
>>behaviour is that Linus wanted to leave as much merge policy
>>decision to be scriptable without hardcoding it in read-tree.
> 
> 
> This could be OK for git-read-tree but maybe git-merge-index could have
> a --smart option to deal with trivial cases like below (or a separate
> tool). Whoever wants to write a more interactive script would not pass
> this option.