From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:08:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/11] Allow merging bare trees in merge-recursive.
Message-ID: <7vk60cxx1t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20061228073523.GI17867@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> To support wider use cases, such as from within `git am -3`, the
> merge-recursive utility needs to accept not just commit-ish but
> also tree-ish as arguments on its command line.

Yes, this was one of the things I did not like about
merge-recursive (I think the original Python one may have
accepted three trees but I am not sure --- it's so looong ago).