From: Johannes Sixt Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:50:16 GMT Subject: git-gui is still using old-style git-merge invocation Message-ID: <56325C58.1060007@kdbg.org> Performing a merge with git gui presents the following message in the merge result window: warning: old-style 'git merge HEAD ' is deprecated. Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy. a | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 a But I am unable to find where the invocation happens. Can somebody help? -- Hannes PS: Reproducer: git init echo a > a git add a git commit -ma a git checkout -b side @~ echo b > b git add b git commit -mb git gui # to merge: Ctrl-M, Enter, Enter