The merge-recursive machiery is one of the most complex parts of
the system that accumulated cruft over time. This large series
cleans up the implementation quite a bit.
* en/merge-recursive-cleanup: (26 commits)
merge-recursive: fix the fix to the diff3 common ancestor label
merge-recursive: fix the diff3 common ancestor label for virtual commits
merge-recursive: alphabetize include list
merge-recursive: add sanity checks for relevant merge_options
merge-recursive: rename MERGE_RECURSIVE_* to MERGE_VARIANT_*
merge-recursive: split internal fields into a separate struct
merge-recursive: avoid losing output and leaking memory holding that output
merge-recursive: comment and reorder the merge_options fields
merge-recursive: consolidate unnecessary fields in merge_options
merge-recursive: move some definitions around to clean up the header
merge-recursive: rename merge_options argument to opt in header
merge-recursive: rename 'mrtree' to 'result_tree', for clarity
merge-recursive: use common name for ancestors/common/base_list
merge-recursive: fix some overly long lines
cache-tree: share code between functions writing an index as a tree
merge-recursive: don't force external callers to do our logging
merge-recursive: remove useless parameter in merge_trees()
merge-recursive: exit early if index != head
Ensure index matches head before invoking merge machinery, round N
merge-recursive: remove another implicit dependency on the_repository
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