From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 22:39:28 GMT Subject: Re: Strange merge conflicts against earlier merge. Message-ID: <7vy83ukdwf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20051111215620.GX16061@pasky.or.cz> Petr Baudis writes: > 16 anc1/anc2 anc1 anc2 no merge > > What ends up in the index at this moment as "stage 1"? anc1? anc2? > Two stage 1 entries? And what does git-merge-index do about this? I think we decided there is no single sensible resolution, and we leave stage 1 empty. Come to think of it, we should signal that we are punting by either exiting non-zero, or stuffing 0{40} SHA1 in stage1, so that we can distinguish the case with two sides adding things differently. Daniel, what do you think?