# Re: \[PATCH 2/7\] merge-ort: add ability to record conflict messages in a file

- From: Jeff King \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-10-01 05:28:49 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/10/7904172
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/08/7900788/t.md

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On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 07:07:21PM -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:

> > That said, I think it could also make sense to annotate the conflict
> > files by giving them an unusual set of mode bits. That would be easier
> > to recognize (and while real trees _could_ have silly modes, we do
> > complain about them in fsck, so it shouldn't happen in practice).
> 
> I tried giving things unusual mode bits in early versions of merge-ort
> for other reasons.  It doesn't work: canon_mode() will "fix" the
> unusualness so there's no way for the reader to know that they had
> unusual bits.

Ah, right, I totally forgot about that.

> But, as you said later, avoiding these pseudo-files is going to be
> cleaner anyway, so let's just do that.

I'm quite happy if you're on board with that direction. :)

-Peff
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