Commit Briefs
use Patience diff for merging during cherrypick/backout/histedit/rebase
This has been shown to prevent mis-merges in some cases. It's probably not a final solution. We should look at what Git's "recursive merge" is doing and implement something similar. Keep using Myers during update/unstage. The advantage of Myers is that it produces smaller conflict chunks, and there are no known cases of mis-merges which affect update/unstage.
in addblk(), only read data into buffer1 if we will compare it to buffer2
suggested by and ok naddy@
check a block's hash as well as its length before expensive comparisons
suggested by + ok naddy, and Ori agrees
fix unrelated changes being merged by got cherrypick/backout/rebase/histedit
This was a long-standing and very annoying bug. The two xfail tests in the cherrypick test suite are passing now.