Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > When a merge conflicts, there are often common lines that are not really > common, such as empty lines or lines containing a single curly bracket. > > With XDL_MERGE_ZEALOUS_ALNUM, we use the following heuristics: when a > hunk does not contain any letters or digits, it is treated as conflicting. I like the general direction. This might need to be loosened further if we want to cover Voltage's case where the inconveniently common hunk had another line, "int err;", which had alnums. Perhaps we would want to say "max N alnums" instead of "no alnums". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html