Re: [PATCH] merge-recursive: leave unmerged entries in the index.

Fredrik Kuivinen [off-list ref] writes:

It might be cleaner to use

runProgram(['git-update-index', '-z', '--index-info'],
           input="0 " + ("0" * 40) + "\t" + path + "\0" + \
                 "%o %s %d\t%s\0" % (oMode, oSHA1, 1, path) + \
                 "%o %s %d\t%s\0" % (aMode, aSHA1, 2, path) + \
                 "%o %s %d\t%s\0" % (bMode, bSHA1, 3, path))

here instead. With this code we will get an exception if
git-update-index exits with an error code. It is also consistent with
the rest of the code.

Thanks.  I did not know how to feed the string through
runProgram (well, I did not look close enough).