Re: git-merge ignore specific files

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--- Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Bill Priest wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >   I have two branches that are slightly different
> and
> > most changes "belong" in both.  There are a
> handful of
> > files/directories that are disparate.  Is there
> any
> > way in git to tell it not to merge these files? 
> Kind
> > of like .gitignore but for merges.
> 
> Most probably you can use gitattributes for that.
> Or you can use 'our' merge strategy.

Can you point me to some docs on "our" merge strategy?

> 
> >   In addition I'd like a way to specify to
> git-merge
> > to leave all merged files unrecorded in the index.
> 
> > Then as I go through each file making sure that
> the
> > merge "makes sense" (not that git did the right
> thing;
> > but that I want the changes in both branches) that
> I
> > add the change to the index.
> 
> You can use gitattributes for that.

I did man gitattributes and nothing jumped out at me
as far as an attribute that I could set/unset that
would stop a file from being merged.  What am I
missing?

Bill
 


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