From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:11:38 GMT
Subject: Re: How to selectively recreate merge state?
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In-Reply-To: <m38wdae4k4.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

>   --unresolve::
>         Restores the 'unmerged' or 'needs updating' state of a
>         file during a merge if it was cleared by accident.
>
> Unless "git add foo" not only adds current contents of foo at stage 0,
> but also removes higher stages from index...

By definition, adding anything at stage #0 is to remove higher stages.