How to keep the local file or the remote file during merge using Git and the command line

Question

I know how to merge modification using vimdiff  but  assuming I just know that the entire file is good to keep or to throw away  how do I do that    I don t want to open vimdiff for each of them  I change want a command that says  keep local  or  keep remote    E G  I got a merge with files marked as changed because somebody opened it under windows  changing the EOL  and then commited  When merging  I want to just keep my own version and discard his   I m also interested in the contrary  I screwed up big time and want to accept the remote file  discarding my changes

User · Accepted Answer

You can as well do   git checkout --theirs  path to file   to keep the remote file  and   git checkout --ours  path to file   to keep local file   Then git add them and everything is done   Edition  Keep in mind that this is for a merge scenario  During a rebase --theirs refers to the branch where you ve been working

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git checkout  branch-name  --  file-name   This will use the file from the branch of choice   I like this because posh-git autocomplete works great with this  It also removes any ambiguity as to which branch is remote and which is local  And --theirs didn t work for me anyways

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This approach seems more straightforward  avoiding the need to individually select each file     keep remote files git merge --strategy-option theirs   keep local files git merge --strategy-option ours   or    keep remote files git pull -Xtheirs   keep local files git pull -Xours   Copied directly from  Resolve Git merge conflicts in favor of their changes during a pull

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For the line-end thingie  refer to man git-merge   --ignore-space-change  --ignore-all-space  --ignore-space-at-eol   Be sure to add autocrlf   false and or safecrlf   false to the windows clone   git config   Using git mergetool  If you configure a mergetool like this   git config mergetool cp cmd   bin cp -v   REMOTE    MERGED   git config mergetool cp trustExitCode true   Then a simple  git mergetool --tool cp git mergetool --tool cp -- paths to files txt git mergetool --tool cp -y -- paths to files txt   without prompting   Will do the job  Using simple git commands  In other cases  I assume   git checkout HEAD -- path to myfile txt   should do the trick  Edit to do the reverse  because you screwed up    git checkout remote branch to merge -- path to myfile txt

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