Re: Comments on recursive merge..

> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:58:50PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > We already have a fallback list: after really-trivial, try automatic, ...,
> > try resolve. Why not just add recursive? So, if even resolve failed, just 
> > try once more, with recursive.
> > 
> 
> I don't think this is a very good idea for two reasons. The first one
> is that there are some merge scenarios involving renames which should
> be conflicts but are cleanly merged by git-resolve.
> 
> The second reason is that with the fall back list the recursive
> strategy will only be used in the strange corner cases and will thus
> not get nearly the same amount of testing it would get if it was the
> first choice (or directly after the really-trivial merge).