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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 4"""
+ date="2018-08-02T17:46:51Z"
+ content="""
+OTOH, maybe merging is never something one would want to add a custom
+message for -- it's an entirely a function of the inputs -- and so only
+"update" should get replaced.
+"""]]