I posted this question to StackOverflow a while ago but no one answered it so I thought I'd try here. Let's say I have a file with this content in master: _____ Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 _____ Now say I create and checkout a new branch called Test. In this branch I change the file to this: _____ Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Modified Line 4 _____ and I commit this and switch back to master. In master I change the file to: _____ Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 Modified _____ and I commit. Now if I merge branch Test into master, I get a conflict. Why can't git auto resolve this, as those are two entirely independent lines? If I tell git to edit conflicts using BeyondCompare as the difftool, BeyondCompare autoresolves this without even telling the user, since this isn't a real conflict (other merge tools we use at our company do so also). Is there a way to get git to autoresolve these? I've tried the recursive and resolve merge strategies but neither do it. It's an issue in our company because there are certain files where multiple developers change lines in close proximity and this causes many unnecessary conflicts when they pull. -- 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