On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 03:18:02PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

So I am wondering what should be used as the record of "if the other
branch made this change, we have seen this conflict already, and we
know it is safe to resolve it to remove the path".

i suppose i may be missing the obvious, but why not just treat the 
removal as a full diff (like a traditional patch would do) and remember 
the resolution accordingly like any other conflict?

the key to making this useful is presenting followup conflicts in a 
sensible way that highlights where they actually are, but that would be 
useful regardless - i often run into this while rebasing, where finding 
that one line that i added to a bigger section that was (re-)moved 
requires so much attention that i instead look at the original patch 
rather than the conflict to see what it was. (note that i'm using diff3 
markers.)

regards,
ossi