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From: Alec Clews <alecclews@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to install and use a custom merge driver
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:04:02 +0000 (UTC)
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Jeff King <peff <at> peff.net> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 02:10:18PM +1100, Alec Clews wrote:
> 
> > Setup:
> >
> > I have set up my ..git/info/gitattributes as follows
> >
> > *      merge=overwrite
> 
> Your setup looks right, except that the correct file is
> ".git/info/attributes".

Thanks Jeff

I fixed that problem -- however it did not make any difference.

Is there someway to enable logging to see how git is making this choice?

- Alec