Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Currently we write the conflict to disk directly in the handle_path > function. To make it re-usable for nested conflicts, instead of > writing the conflict out directly, store it in a strbuf and let the > caller write it out. > > This does mean some slight increase in memory usage, however that > increase is limited to the size of the largest conflict we've > currently processed. We already keep one copy of the conflict in > memory, and it shouldn't be too large, so the increase in memory usage > seems acceptable. > > As a bonus this lets us get replace the rerere_io_putconflict function > with a trivial two line function. Makes sense.