* Two-way merge.
*
* The rule is to "carry forward" what is in the index without losing
- * information across a "fast forward", favoring a successful merge
+ * information across a "fast-forward", favoring a successful merge
* over a merge failure when it makes sense. For details of the
* "carry forward" rule, please see <Documentation/git-read-tree.txt>.
*
return error("Cannot do a oneway merge of %d trees",
o->merge_size);
- if (!a)
+ if (!a || a == o->df_conflict_entry)
return deleted_entry(old, old, o);
if (old && same(old, a)) {
int update = 0;
- if (o->reset) {
+ if (o->reset && !ce_uptodate(old)) {
struct stat st;
if (lstat(old->name, &st) ||
ie_match_stat(o->src_index, old, &st, CE_MATCH_IGNORE_VALID))