Cannot proceed dead lock ( maybe related to `git lfs` in history? ) about git-imerge HOT 2 CLOSED

With --manual merge. I debugged with a loop like this to break on merges or loop when the lfs file appears.

while true
do
  git log files/yq_linux_amd64.tar.gz || git imerge continue || break
  sleep 1
done

When I received a point when the file exists in git log hit Ctrl-C.
Then i debugged with python trace module and found that this command returns error 1.
'git' 'diff-index' '--cached' '--quiet' '--ignore-submodules' 'HEAD' '--'

When executed manually without --quiet I see this output:

:100644 000000 36fabf0fed23a65d043807e75e161f6072f3b15a 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 D    files/yq_linux_amd64.tar.gz

I think this is correct and a bug in git imerge because this is a staged file ( deleted ) and I would expect git imerge continue would operate as normal.

$ git status --verbose
On branch imerge/feature/OPS-587
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
        deleted:    files/yq_linux_amd64.tar.gz

diff --git a/files/yq_linux_amd64.tar.gz b/files/yq_linux_amd64.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 36fabf0f..00000000
Binary files a/files/yq_linux_amd64.tar.gz and /dev/null differ

from git-imerge.

I think I had an usage error here. Started from beginning again.
And i think the essential thing was to just remove the file from index ( git rm --cached files/yq_linux_amd64.tar.gz ) and put it into .gitignore file than stage them. afterwards git imerge continue worked as expected.

from git-imerge.