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Created February 28, 2012 01:10
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Git merge theirs
# in case branchA is not our current branch
git checkout branchA
# make merge commit but without conflicts!!
# the contents of 'ours' will be discarded later
git merge -s ours branchB
# make temporary branch to merged commit
git branch branchTEMP
# get contents of working tree and index to the one of branchB
git reset --hard branchB
# reset to our merged commit but
# keep contents of working tree and index
git reset --soft branchTEMP
# change the contents of the merged commit
# with the contents of branchB
git commit --amend
# get rid off our temporary branch
git branch -D branchTEMP
# verify that the merge commit contains only contents of branchB
git diff HEAD branchB
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