Re: git commit/push and VC

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 13:01:26 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> > Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:43:16 +0100
> > 
> > It records unresolved conflicts in the index where they are overwritten
> > when doing git-add.  I haven't checked whether git commit -a will
> > actually overwrite a conflicted index.  If it does, we don't want to
> > recommend that error-prone workflow which is likely to record files with
> > unresolved conflicts as resolved.  If it doesn't, git commit -a will not
> > help.  smerge-mode, incidentally, adds the file in question
> > automatically anyway after all conflicts are resolved.  So if "# resolve
> > conflicts" implies use of smerge-mode, just git commit should be enough.
> 
> Ah, okay, so we should mention smerge-mode there.  Thanks.

What about non-content conflicts, though?  AFAIK, smerge-mode doesn't
handle those, so "git add" might still be necessary?