Re: [PATCH] mergetool: Provide an empty file when no base exists

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Yuck, sorry for sending out a edit-in-progress copy.

It almost makes me wonder if the obviously simplest change to make
checkout_staged_file create an empty file when the asked-for stage does
not exist, i.e.

It should read

It almost makes me wonder if the obviously simplest change to make
checkout_staged_file create an empty file when the asked-for stage does
not exist is good enough, i.e.