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gitk: showing onging merge as such ?

Subject: gitk: showing onging merge as such ?

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One message between May 7, 2009 and May 7, 2009.

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Yann Dirson· May 7, 2009, 11:46 UTC · lore

While resolving a conflicted merge, I wondered if there was any reason why gitk does not show that we are indeed doing a merge, by showing the staged contents as a merge commit if MERGE_HEAD is found.

Is there any reason why we would not do this ?

I had a quick try at how this could be done, here it is. The diff is not yet displayed as combined.

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