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Re: excluding files from a merge

From
Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 15, 2009, 12:47 UTC
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<76718490903150547o1c791d35r5d71000b481f443b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Daniel Jacobs <djacobs7@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like it if every file was merged, except for files that were explictly
> excluded from a merge between these two branches.  Is there a good way to do
> this?

Please see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/110488 (Is there a way to exclude user-specified files or directories from participating in merges?)

I believe it is the same use case, and Junio provided a very detailed reply.
HTH,
j.
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