From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:12:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] merge-recursive: add a bunch of FIXME comments documenting known bugs
Message-ID: <87sg55iyc0.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0409118d4ff76a8dc0285c436f89478176752955.1614905738.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>


On Fri, Mar 05 2021, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
>
> The plan is to just delete merge-recursive, but not until everyone is
> comfortable with merge-ort as a replacement.  Given that I haven't
> switched all callers of merge-recursive over yet (e.g. git-am still uses
> merge-recursive), maybe there's some value documenting known bugs in the
> algorithm in case we end up keeping it or someone wants to dig it up in
> the future.

Yes, I think that's very useful.