The part that grants Stephen's wish is unchanged from the earlier "perhaps like this" patch, but this time with a bit of documentation and test. A more important change between the two actually is [PATCH 2/2]. When a "binary" synthetic attribute is given to a path, we used to (1) disable textual diff and (2) disable CR/LF conversion, but it is also sane to disable the textual merge for a path marked as "binary", and setting the "-merge" attribute to summon the "binary" ll-merge driver is the way to do so. Junio C Hamano (2): merge: teach -Xours/-Xtheirs to binary ll-merge driver attr: "binary" attribute should choose built-in "binary" merge driver Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 2 +- Documentation/merge-strategies.txt | 3 ++- attr.c | 2 +- ll-merge.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++----- t/t6037-merge-ours-theirs.sh | 14 +++++++++++++- 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- 1.7.12.322.g2c7d289 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html