Re: [PATCH v2 04/20] merge-recursive: exit early if index != head

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:32 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Make sure we do the index == head check at the beginning of the merge,
>> > and error out immediately if it fails.  While we're at it, fix a small
>> > leak in the show-the-error codepath.
>>
>> As the call to repo_index_has_changes() is moved to the very
>> beginning of merge_recursive() and merge_trees(), the workhorse of
>> the merge machinery, merge_trees_internal(), can lose it.
>
> Is this just a re-summarization (a perfectly good one), or a
> suggestion for alternate wording for the commit message?