Re: [PATCH (1b)] merge-recursive.c: Add more generic merge_recursive_generic()

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:26:22PM +0200, Stephan Beyer [off-list ref] wrote:

I did not intend to replace merge_recursive() by merge_recursive_generic(),
because merge_recursive() may be the better choice in cases where the caller
only deals with commit objects and never with tree objects directly.
Or if the caller does not want to lock the index or do some other stuff
with the index...
In that case merge_recursive_setup() is still needed, isn't it?

Hm, OK. I was not aware pure merge_recursive() will be interesting for
other builtins even after merge_recursive_generic().