+/* NEEDSWORK: share with merge-recursive */
+static void fill_mm(const unsigned char *sha1, mmfile_t *mm)
+{
+ unsigned long size;
+ enum object_type type;
+
+ if (!hashcmp(sha1, null_sha1)) {
+ mm->ptr = xstrdup("");
+ mm->size = 0;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ mm->ptr = read_sha1_file(sha1, &type, &size);
+ if (!mm->ptr || type != OBJ_BLOB)
+ die("unable to read blob object %s", sha1_to_hex(sha1));
+ mm->size = size;
+}
+
+static int checkout_merged(int pos, struct checkout *state)
+{
+ struct cache_entry *ce = active_cache[pos];
+ const char *path = ce->name;
+ mmfile_t ancestor, ours, theirs;
+ int status;
+ unsigned char sha1[20];
+ mmbuffer_t result_buf;
+
+ if (ce_stage(ce) != 1 ||
+ active_nr <= pos + 2 ||
+ strcmp(active_cache[pos+1]->name, path) ||
+ ce_stage(active_cache[pos+1]) != 2 ||
+ strcmp(active_cache[pos+2]->name, path) ||
+ ce_stage(active_cache[pos+2]) != 3)
+ return error("path '%s' does not have all 3 versions", path);
+
+ fill_mm(active_cache[pos]->sha1, &ancestor);
+ fill_mm(active_cache[pos+1]->sha1, &ours);
+ fill_mm(active_cache[pos+2]->sha1, &theirs);
+
+ status = ll_merge(&result_buf, path, &ancestor,
+ &ours, "ours", &theirs, "theirs", 1);
+ free(ancestor.ptr);
+ free(ours.ptr);
+ free(theirs.ptr);
+ if (status < 0 || !result_buf.ptr) {
+ free(result_buf.ptr);
+ return error("path '%s': cannot merge", path);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * NEEDSWORK:
+ * There is absolutely no reason to write this as a blob object
+ * and create a phoney cache entry just to leak. This hack is
+ * primarily to get to the write_entry() machinery that massages
+ * the contents to work-tree format and writes out which only
+ * allows it for a cache entry. The code in write_entry() needs
+ * to be refactored to allow us to feed a <buffer, size, mode>
+ * instead of a cache entry. Such a refactoring would help
+ * merge_recursive as well (it also writes the merge result to the
+ * object database even when it may contain conflicts).
+ */
+ if (write_sha1_file(result_buf.ptr, result_buf.size,
+ blob_type, sha1))
+ die("Unable to add merge result for '%s'", path);
+ ce = make_cache_entry(create_ce_mode(active_cache[pos+1]->ce_mode),
+ sha1,
+ path, 2, 0);
+ status = checkout_entry(ce, state, NULL);
+ return status;
+}
+