Git merge options for merging conflicted changes. (Our or Theirs)
We can tell Git to favor one side or the other when it sees a conflict. By default, when Git sees a conflict between two branches being merged, it will add merge conflict markers into your code and mark the file as conflicted and let you resolve it. If you would prefer for Git to simply choose a specific side and ignore the other side instead of letting you manually resolve the conflict, you can pass the merge command either a -Xours or -Xtheirs . If Git sees this, it will not add conflict markers. Any differences that are mergeable, it will merge. Any differences that conflict, it will simply choose the side you specify in whole, including binary files. $ git merge mundo Auto-merging hello.rb CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in hello.rb Resolved 'hello.rb' using previous resolution. Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. However if we run it with -Xours or -Xtheirs it does n...