diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index 8f0839d205..d948aa88db 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ sub get_empty_tree {
 # FILE:		is file different from index?
 # INDEX_ADDDEL:	is it add/delete between HEAD and index?
 # FILE_ADDDEL:	is it add/delete between index and file?
+# UNMERGED:	is the path unmerged
 
 sub list_modified {
 	my ($only) = @_;
@@ -318,16 +319,10 @@ sub list_modified {
 		}
 	}
 
-	for (run_cmd_pipe(qw(git diff-files --numstat --summary --), @tracked)) {
+	for (run_cmd_pipe(qw(git diff-files --numstat --summary --raw --), @tracked)) {
 		if (($add, $del, $file) =
 		    /^([-\d]+)	([-\d]+)	(.*)/) {
 			$file = unquote_path($file);
-			if (!exists $data{$file}) {
-				$data{$file} = +{
-					INDEX => 'unchanged',
-					BINARY => 0,
-				};
-			}
 			my ($change, $bin);
 			if ($add eq '-' && $del eq '-') {
 				$change = 'binary';
@@ -346,6 +341,18 @@ sub list_modified {
 			$file = unquote_path($file);
 			$data{$file}{FILE_ADDDEL} = $adddel;
 		}
+		elsif (/^:[0-7]+ [0-7]+ [0-9a-f]+ [0-9a-f]+ (.)	(.*)$/) {
+			$file = unquote_path($2);
+			if (!exists $data{$file}) {
+				$data{$file} = +{
+					INDEX => 'unchanged',
+					BINARY => 0,
+				};
+			}
+			if ($1 eq 'U') {
+				$data{$file}{UNMERGED} = 1;
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	for (sort keys %data) {
@@ -1190,6 +1197,10 @@ sub apply_patch_for_checkout_commit {
 
 sub patch_update_cmd {
 	my @all_mods = list_modified($patch_mode_flavour{FILTER});
+	error_msg "ignoring unmerged: $_->{VALUE}\n"
+		for grep { $_->{UNMERGED} } @all_mods;
+	@all_mods = grep { !$_->{UNMERGED} } @all_mods;
+
 	my @mods = grep { !($_->{BINARY}) } @all_mods;
 	my @them;
 
diff --git a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh b/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
index 9e236f9cc0..098a6ae4a0 100755
--- a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
+++ b/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
@@ -330,4 +330,30 @@ test_expect_success PERL 'split hunk "add -p (edit)"' '
 	! grep "^+15" actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'patch mode ignores unmerged entries' '
+	git reset --hard &&
+	test_commit conflict &&
+	test_commit non-conflict &&
+	git checkout -b side &&
+	test_commit side conflict.t &&
+	git checkout master &&
+	test_commit master conflict.t &&
+	test_must_fail git merge side &&
+	echo changed >non-conflict.t &&
+	echo y | git add -p >output &&
+	! grep a/conflict.t output &&
+	cat >expected <<-\EOF &&
+	* Unmerged path conflict.t
+	diff --git a/non-conflict.t b/non-conflict.t
+	index f766221..5ea2ed4 100644
+	--- a/non-conflict.t
+	+++ b/non-conflict.t
+	@@ -1 +1 @@
+	-non-conflict
+	+changed
+	EOF
+	git diff --cached >diff &&
+	test_cmp expected diff
+'
+
 test_done