> I would be interested to know which merge tool chokes on |||||||. ;) In my case, it was smerge-mode.el (a minor mode included in Emacs since Emacs-22, which highlights such conflicts and tries to help you resolve them). Stefan PS: As you may have guessed, I'm the primary author of this Emacs package. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html