Re: [PATCH 0/3] Small new merge-ort features, prepping for deletion of merge-recursive.[ch]

> I've got 19 patches covering the work needed to prep for and allow us to
> delete merge-recursive.[ch], and remap 'recursive' to 'ort', including some
> clean-up along the way. I've tried to divide it up into five smaller patch
> series.
> 
> These 3 patches are the first of those series, and each of these 3 patches
> provide a small new feature that together will be used to allow us to
> convert some callers over from recursive to ort. If the third patch,
> introducing merge_ort_generic(), doesn't make sense to submit without one of
> its new callers, I can extend this series to 6 patches and include the
> conversion of git-am.sh.