Re: [PATCH] Fix read-tree merging more than 3 trees using 3-way merge

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Sorry. I didn't even realize people did this. Oops.

This is no big deal.  It would have triggered if you are using
resolve strategy _and_ did a multi merge-base merge, the former
of which is quite unusual these days.

> What *is* the behaviour for four trees? Reading "unpack_trees()" source 
> implies that all other trees go into stage 1, where the first matching 
> entry is used?

Documentation/technical/trivial-merge.txt describes this under
three-way case.  Essentially this was an attempt to extend the
original merge-resolve so that it would catch problematic
criss-cross cases (case #16 in the description).
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