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Force a new version of a file without merge?

Subject: Force a new version of a file without merge?

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iware· Mar 31, 2009, 15:45 UTC · lore

There's a really old bad version of a file that I want to completely overwrite. It keeps merging and removing what I want to put out there.

Is there a way to completely replace a file at HEAD in a remote repository without merging?

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