Re: git-merge ignore specific files

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Bill Priest wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> 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?

git-merge(1), section "Merge strategies":

  ours::
        This resolves any number of heads, but the result of the
        merge is always the current branch head.  It is meant to
        be used to supersede old development history of side
        branches.

>>>   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?

See `diff' and `merge' attributes, for example

*.nbi		-diff -merge

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Jakub Narebski
Poland