On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > in process_entry(), and I think we could just there add a test for if > o_old,o_mod == a_oid,a_mode or something? Actually, not process_entry, but merge_content(). Oddly, that *already* has the check: if (mfi.clean && !df_conflict_remains && oid_eq(&mfi.oid, a_oid) && mfi.mode == a_mode) { int path_renamed_outside_HEAD; output(o, 3, _("Skipped %s (merged same as existing)"), path); but that doesn't seem to actually trigger for some reason. But the code really seems to have the _intention_ of skipping the case where the result ended up the same as the source. Maybe I'm missing something. Linus