Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2018, #06; Wed, 29)

>> Suggestions for a better rewrite is very much appreciated.
>
> That makes sense.  I'm not sure I can concisely convey all the right
> points, but here's a stab at rewording:
>
> Recent addition of "directory rename" heuristics to the
> merge-recursive backend makes the command susceptible to false
> positives and false negatives.  In the context of "git am -3", which
> does not know about surrounding unmodified paths and thus cannot
> inform the merge machinery about the full trees involved, this risk is
> particularly severe.  As such, the heuristic is disabled for "git am
> -3" to keep the machinery "more stupid but predictable".