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Guided merge with override

From
Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 16, 2008, 04:16 UTC
Message-ID
<93c3eada0806152116v2cef4035u272dc1a26005661a@mail.gmail.com>

I have a two repositories A and B. B is a tiny subset of the files in A and all have been modified. If I do a "git pull B" into A, I get conflicts. I always want to resolve these by accepting the version from B. Is there a magic "override" switch to let me do this?

Cheers, Geoff Russell

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  1. Geoff RussellJun 16, 2008
  2. Miklos VajnaJun 16, 2008
  3. Johannes SixtJun 16, 2008
  4. Miklos VajnaJun 16, 2008
  5. Sverre RabbelierJun 16, 2008
  6. Geoff RussellJun 16, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 17, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinJun 18, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJun 18, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 18, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinJun 18, 2008
  12. 1/2 git-merge-file --ours, --theirsJunio C Hamano, Jun 20, 2008
  13. 2/2 git-merge-recursive-{ours,theirs}Junio C Hamano, Jun 20, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinJun 20, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2008
  16. Johannes SchindelinJun 21, 2008
  17. Jakub NarebskiJun 21, 2008
  18. Johannes SixtJun 17, 2008
  19. Sverre RabbelierJun 17, 2008
  20. Johannes SchindelinJun 17, 2008
  21. Sverre RabbelierJun 17, 2008
  22. Johannes SchindelinJun 17, 2008

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