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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="kyle"
+ avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/7d6e85cde1422ad60607c87fa87c63f3"
+ subject="re: git 2.34: some conflict resolution unit tests fail"
+ date="2021-11-21T21:41:36Z"
+ content="""
+I see similar failures on GNU/Linux with Git 2.34.
+
+```
+$ git version
+git version 2.34.0
+$ git annex version | grep version:
+git-annex version: 8.20211118-ga0e9a059a
+
+$ git annex test -p 'conflict resolution '
+Tests
+  Unit Tests v8 adjusted unlocked branch
+    conflict resolution (adjusted branch):                Init Tests
+  init: OK (0.12s)
+  add:  OK (0.42s)
+
+All 2 tests passed (0.54s)
+OK (2.30s)
+    conflict resolution movein regression:                OK (2.18s)
+    conflict resolution (mixed directory and file):       FAIL (1.71s)
+      Test.hs:1378:
+      r1 conflictor variant file missing in: [\".\",\"..\",\"conflictor~HEAD.variant-cc12\",\"conflictor\",\"sha1foo\",\"foo\",\"bar.c\",\".git\"]
+      Use -p '/conflict resolution /&&/Unit Tests v8 adjusted unlocked branch.conflict resolution (mixed directory and file)/' to rerun this test only.
+    conflict resolution symlink bit:                      OK
+[... 206 lines ...]
+    conflict resolution (mixed locked and unlocked file): FAIL (1.51s)
+      Test.hs:1611:
+      r1 not exactly 0 variant files in: [\".\",\"..\",\"conflictor.variant-cc12\",\"conflictor~refs_remotes_r2_master.variant-cc12\",\"conflictor\",\"sha1foo\",\"foo\",\"bar.c\",\".git\"]
+      Use -p '/conflict resolution /&&/Unit Tests v8 locked.conflict resolution (mixed locked and unlocked file)/' to rerun this test only.
+
+8 out of 27 tests failed (53.21s)
+  (Failures above could be due to a bug in git-annex, or an incompatibility
+   with utilities, such as git, installed on this system.)
+```
+
+> Presumably this is due to the new ort merge strategy that has been
+> made default in this new release of git.
+
+Yes, that looks to be it.  The above failure goes away if I force
+git-annex to merge with the old recursive strategy:
+
+[[!format diff \"\"\"
+
+diff --git a/Git/Merge.hs b/Git/Merge.hs
+index b88d9a00f..c50672a3d 100644
+--- a/Git/Merge.hs
++++ b/Git/Merge.hs
+@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ merge' extraparams branch mergeconfig commitmode r
+ 		go [Param $ fromRef branch]
+ 	| otherwise = go [Param \"--no-edit\", Param $ fromRef branch]
+   where
+-	go ps = merge'' (sp ++ [Param \"merge\"] ++ qp ++ ps ++ extraparams) mergeconfig r
++	go ps = merge'' (sp ++ [Param \"merge\"] ++ [Param \"-srecursive\"] ++
++			 qp ++ ps ++ extraparams) mergeconfig r
+ 	sp
+ 		| commitmode == AutomaticCommit =
+ 			[Param \"-c\", Param \"commit.gpgsign=false\"]
+
+\"\"\"]]
+
+```
+$ git version
+git version 2.34.0
+$ git annex version | grep version:
+git-annex version: 8.20211118-g30580a4e7
+
+$ git annex test -p 'conflict resolution '
+Tests
+  Unit Tests v8 adjusted unlocked branch
+    conflict resolution (adjusted branch):                Init Tests
+  init: OK (0.17s)
+  add:  OK (0.41s)
+
+All 2 tests passed (0.59s)
+OK (2.18s)
+    conflict resolution movein regression:                OK (2.24s)
+[... 37 lines ...]
+All 27 tests passed (67.12s)
+```
+
+"""]]