[GhotiFish]

I'm a bit green to the workflow my self, but I agree with you, this doesn't seem to add anything.

Why is having the server doing the merge advantageous to doing the merge locally?

[brown9-2]

From the blog post: without ever needing to go to the command line. So I think their goal is to make things even easier for users that have trouble (or don't like) the command line.