>As a native English speaker, I find the new phrasing odd, and think >this may a step backward. How about trying a different approach? For >example: >Occasionally, the maintainer may get merge conflicts when trying >to pull changes from downstream. In this case, it may make sense >to ask downstream to do the merge and resolve the conflicts >instead (since, presumably, downstream will know better how to >resolve them). Indeed, this is an other possibility. Thanks for the review. Daniel BENSOUSSAN-BOHM