Re: Improving merge failure message

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On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:48:23AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Thanks, very true indeed.  "It would be clobbered if we were to continue
> hence we abort." is how we want to explain our behaviour, so "would" is
> definitely better here.

While we're picking apart your wording, is "clobbered" the word we want
to use? Everywhere else that is user-facing we tend to use the term
"overwritten".

-Peff
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