From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: GIT
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:59:03 +1100
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Saurabh Gupta
<saurabhgupta1403@gmail.com> wrote:

> *1) Domain specific merge helpers*
> Intelligence in the merger can be put which modifies the source file
> according the format. Different file formats can be put in the merger
> to support.

I don't think that's Git specific, though it still might be reasonable
to be done as a Git GSoC project. I'm sure other VCSs would find that
useful, and even folk who aren't using VCSs might benefit from it.


Dave.