From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:24:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] merge: make restore_state() restore staged state too
Message-ID: <xmqq8roml9h6.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <91c495c770e3f7f91ae655a503bdd1cd99935e40.1658391391.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

>    * stash the changes, in order to clean up after the strategies
>    * try all the merge strategies in turn, each of which report they
>      cannot function due to the index not matching HEAD
>    * restore the changes via "git stash apply"

A tangent that does not make much difference in the end, but I am
finding these lines curious and somewhat annoying.  Why do we have
&nbsp; sandwitching the plain whitespace only on lines that begin
with an asterisk?