On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 04:25:45PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> > I think it could make sense for merge-index to be able to directly run
> > the merge-one-file code[1]. But I think we'd want to keep its ability to
> > run an arbitrary script, and for people to call merge-one-file
> > separately, since right now you can do:
> >
> >   git merge-index my-script
> >
> > and have "my-script" do some processing of its own, then hand off more
> > work to merge-one-file.
> 
> Oh, sorry, I did not mean to say that we should do away with this at
> all! Rather, I meant to say that `merge-index` could detect when it was
> asked to run `git-merge-one-file` and re-route to internal code instead
> of spawning a process. If any other script/program was specified, it
> should be spawned off, just like it is done today.

OK, great, then we are completely on the same page. :)

-Peff

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