# Re: \[PATCH 11/11\] merge-recursive: add a bunch of FIXME comments documenting known bugs

- From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-03-08 13:13:14 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/03/7878621
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/03/7878463/t.md

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On Fri, Mar 05 2021, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Elijah Newren <redacted>
>
> The plan is to just delete merge-recursive, but not until everyone is
> comfortable with merge-ort as a replacement.  Given that I haven't
> switched all callers of merge-recursive over yet (e.g. git-am still uses
> merge-recursive), maybe there's some value documenting known bugs in the
> algorithm in case we end up keeping it or someone wants to dig it up in
> the future.

Yes, I think that's very useful.
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