During a conflicting merge, you would typically see:
Auto-merged foo.txt
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in foo.txt
Recorded preimage for 'foo.txt'
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
and left wondering what happened to "foo.txt". Did it succeed, and then
conflicted, and then what?
This is because historically there was a progress bar displayed before the
auto-merge is mentioned, and it was expected to take long time, before we
can say "Auto-merged foo.txt". It turns out it was not the case, and the
original wording "Auto-merging foo.txt" we used to have before
89f40be
(Convert output messages in merge-recursive to past tense., 2007-01-14) is
better.
Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>