I tried to squash some fixup commits with "git merge-tree --stdin" and found that my script deadlocked because the output of "git merge-tree" is not flushed after each merge. The first patch fixes that and the rest are cleanups I noticed while reading the code and documentation. This series is based on maint. Phillip Wood (5): merge-tree --stdin: flush stdout to avoid deadlock merge-tree: remove redundant code merge-tree: only use basic merge config merge-tree: improve docs for --stdin merge-tree: fix link formatting in html docs Documentation/git-merge-tree.txt | 11 ++++++++--- builtin/merge-tree.c | 11 +++++------ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) base-commit: f93ff170b93a1782659637824b25923245ac9dd1 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1862%2Fphillipwood%2Fmerge-tree-flush-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1862/phillipwood/merge-tree-flush-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1862 -- gitgitgadget