merge-recursive, was Re: What's in git.git

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

  We'd still need more work on merge-recursive to fix the
  overcautious "working file will be overwritten by merge" --
  this is really needed for usability.

I am sorry, but I do not have the time to wrap my head around this for at 
least another week. It seems to be a complicated problem (not the fix, 
mind you, but the side effects you have to think of!), and I stupidly 
started to play with shallow clones when I knew I had no time already.

BTW what happened to the builtin shortlog? It is the last Perl script I 
use regularly... (should make people happy who are stuck with Activision 
Perl...)

Ciao,
Dscho