Thanks for your feedback, Junio. I tried to reroll the patch by adding another option into the MERGE_MODE file but unfortunately, it didn't work completely because doing `merge --squash` doesn't produce a MERGE_MODE. In addition to this, because of the way merge and commit were structured, I needed to reorder a lot of calls because some variables were only being set after I needed them. Unless we want to produce a MERGE_MODE during --squash (which I don't think is worth it) I don't think that this is the way to go. Instead, I just refined my first approach and only checked the contents of MERGE_MSG for a scissors line. The MERGE_MSG is going to be machine-generated anyway so we should be safe from accidentally ignoring a human-placed scissors line. Changes since V1: ----------------- * Only check MERGE_MSG for a scissors line instead of all prepended files * Make a variable static in merge where appropriate * Add passthrough options in pull * Add documentation for the new option * Add tests to ensure desired behaviour Denton Liu (2): commit: don't add scissors line if one exists merge: add scissors line on merge conflict Documentation/merge-options.txt | 6 +++++ builtin/commit.c | 15 +++++++++-- builtin/merge.c | 16 +++++++++++ builtin/pull.c | 6 +++++ t/t7600-merge.sh | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.19.1