Re: git checkout --theirs fails

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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Phil Susi <phillsusi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm doing a rebase and got some conflicts.  I just want to take their
> version of all files, but git checkout --theirs complains:
>
> --ours/--theirs' cannot be used with switching branches
>
> What gives?  I'm not *trying* to switch branches.  I just want to
> resolve the conflict by taking their version.  If I try git checkout
> --theirs ., then it complains that not every single file in the
> directory has a "their" version.  So?  Take the ones that do.

I think for checking out files you'd need to add the file names.
In case of a collision between branch name and file name, even add
a double dash:

    git checkout --theirs -- file/name

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