Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I do not recall people talking about symbolic links but the case of > binary files has been on the wishlist for a long time, and I do not > know of anybody who is working on (or is planning to work on) it. Ah, I misremembered. We've addressed the "binary files" case back in 2012 with a944af1d ("merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to binary ll-merge driver", 2012-09-08). I do not know offhand if it is just as easy to plumb the MERGE_FAVOR_{OURS,THEIRS} bits thru the symbolic link codepath, like that patch did to the binary file codepath.