Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
Soon after 1.5.0 was released, I think we said these two were
not used in practice and declared them as deprecated. So there
is no "use this instead".
$ man git-resolve | grep -i 'use .* instead'
Reformatting git-resolve(1), please wait...
DEPRECATED and will be removed in 1.5.1. Use git-merge instead.
;-)
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Matthieu