On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > In the upcoming patch to clean up fixup/squash commit messages even when > skipping a final fixup/squash that failed with merge conflicts, we will > need to have some indicator what happened. > > As we need to remove the message-fixup and message-squash files upon > failure, we cannot use those. So let's just write an explicit amend-type > file, containing either `fixup` or `squash`. The absence of that file > indicates that the we were not in the middle of a fixup or squash when s/the we/we/ > merge conflicts were happening. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>