Request for adding a simple mechanism to exclude files from Git merge operation

Hi, This topic is quite common in various use cases (e.g. production configuration vs. staging one) and there are quite a few talks about it in the web. Nevertheless, there is no specific solution to this problem, only partial workarounds (including the famous merge driver “ours”).

I would like to suggest adding the git a simple and precise handling for the need to mark file(s)/folder(s) that are branch specific and should not be involved in merge operation at all.

2 suggestions I can think of are (but any good solution would suffice): • Adding additional merge strategy indication the file/folder is excluded from merges (e.g. merge=disabled/none/skip/…) • Adding a new configuration file (like .gitignore) for tracking these special files/folders, for example: .gitisolate/.gitquarantine/.gitbranchspecific/.gitsilo/…

Any comment would be appreciated.

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