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Mayur Pande
Courses Plus Student 11,711 PointsGit Extra Credit - Merging
So on the second part to the extra credit of the merging section (Selfish Merging) in the Git basics course it says;
"Sometimes when you merge, you don't want to be clever about handling merge conflicts - for example, if you're working on a new redesign of a website, for example, you probably don't care about any changes that were made to the current design recently. In that case, whenever you ran a git merge, you might want to try to automatically just preserve your set of changes whenever there's a conflict. Does git provide a way for you to do that? If so, what situations can you think of where it would be a good idea? Can you think of any situations where it could be harmful?"
I found this question on the forum but I still don't really get it.
Surely if you have a branch with a file in it that you make some changes to and merge that with another branch. The conflict will not affect the the branch with the file that you make some changes to? Therefore preserving the changes that you did?
I am not sure I am right in thinking about this. Please correct me if I am wrong