The recursive merge strategy builds a virtual ancestor merging
recursively the common bases (when more than one) between the
want-to-merge commits. While building this virtual ancestor, content
conflicts are ignored, but current code doesn't do so when a file is
removed.
This was spotted in [1], for example. Merging two commits to build the
virtual ancestor bumped into a conflict (modified in one side, deleted
in the other) that stopped the process.
Follow the "spec" and in case of conflict leave the unmerged content in
the index and working trees.
[1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/kernel/common/+/1228962
Change-Id: Ife9c32ae3ac3a87d3660fa1242e07854b65169d5
Signed-off-by: Ivan Frade <ifrade@google.com>
7d3b6308fc