Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > My interest was to get remote branch "merge" the changes in the > branch taking the branch's version (primarily alternative symlinks > for git-annex'ed content) over the version in master (previous > merge of a similar branch). Unfortunately -s theirs seems to do > actually -s ours What does ls $(git --exec-path) | grep git-merge say? The official Git never shipped "git-merge-theirs" as far as I know, and it should not exist (neither should "git merge -s theirs"; you can use "git reset --hard theirs" instead).