Hi, merge fans and QA fans. As you've seen, the 'symmetric merge' code is live in trunk and destined to be in 1.8.
The principle is nice; however, the current implementation is a rather ugly hack, being just a layer on top of the existing 'sync' and 'reintegrate' merge code. Please review it and send me all your criticism and suggestions. Seriously. I intend to do some self-review as well, but there's nothing like one of you fellow developers looking at it to motivate me to fix it :-) Thanks. - Julian