Re: [PATCH] builtin-revert: Make use of merge_recursive()

>> Would we need to consolidate this and Miklos's "call recursive internally
>> from git-merge wrapper" by making them into three patches?
>> I.e.
>> 
>>  (1) move bulk of code from builtin-merge-recursive.c to a new file
>>      merge-recursive.c and introduce merge_recursive_helper() in there so
>>      that both of you and cmd_merge_recursive() itself can call it;
>
> I'd like to see a "libified" merge-recursive.c, but I wouldn't call the
> interesting function merge_recursive_helper(), I'd just take
> merge_recursive().
> Of course those index locking could be done in it.
>
> Looking at my sequencer code, I'd also be satisfied, if it takes SHAs
> as argument and no "struct commit *".
> But then this should be more generic, i.e. OBJ_TAG has to be handled
> correctly (builtin-revert does that at the beginning at parse-args()).
>
> Hmm, then step (1) is ok. :-)
>
>>  (2) make revert.c use merge_recursive_helper();
>> 
>>  (3) make builtin-merge.c use merge_recursive_helper().
>
> This is ok then.