Re: conflict markers in markdown files

[off-list ref] writes:

It sounds like we might need an attribute like:

*.md	conflict-marker-size=32,conflict-marker-separator='~'

to stick 32 ~ characters as a separator, if going down that path. I'm not
sure how hard this would be, but tooling other systems, like JGit and every
client on the planet would be painful.

Well, the underline-style markdown headers can use tilde for headers
below the level that uses hyphens, so you'd need to pick a different
separator letter ;-).  I agree that third-party application would
have trouble with an arbitrary setting of the marker appearance
(note that our own "rerere" knows about the attribute).