"Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > * stash the changes, in order to clean up after the strategies > * try all the merge strategies in turn, each of which report they > cannot function due to the index not matching HEAD > * restore the changes via "git stash apply" A tangent that does not make much difference in the end, but I am finding these lines curious and somewhat annoying. Why do we have sandwitching the plain whitespace only on lines that begin with an asterisk?