Hi Junio,

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Felipe Gonçalves Assis <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > The usual workaround is using the resolve strategy, but apparently it
> > ignores the custom merge driver.
> 
> Hmph.
> 
> Indeed, git-merge-file seems to call xdl_merge() directly, bypassing
> the ll_merge(), which is understandable as the former predates the
> latter.  That needs to be fixed, I think.

I think this is by design. (Because I designed it.)

The original idea of git-merge-file was to serve as a drop-in replacement
for GNU/BSD merge when you want to avoid to be subject to the vagaries of
the GNU vs BSD implementations.

Ciao,
Dscho

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