On Aug 1, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > And on the other hand a one-patch-at-a-time merge would > try to apply X (with no effect, since it's already applied) > and then try to apply the revert of X. The net effect would > be to revert X from "master" (bad)! Yeah, I appreciate that. I know the type of user that would do that, and I understand why you would want to do that and even do that by default. However, as an expert user, I don’t need that particular type of hand holding given the cost of more conflicts and would like an option to let me to choose to have fewer conflicts when merging.-- 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