Hi, I'm not completely sure if this is the best way to achieve this, but I you could instruct a merge driver to mark all new files as unset. Cheers! -Santiago. On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 04:42:48PM +0300, Ilya Kantor wrote: > Hi, > > We're using Git to manage translations of an open-source book, and most of time it works well. But there's also a problem. > > When we pull changes from upstream (English) to translation (e.g. Japanese), git auto-merges them. > > Sometimes there conflicts, but not all the time. > > For example, when a new file is added to English, it just gets auto-merged into Japanese. > But all new changes must be human-controlled, translated. > > Is there a way to force git always generate a conflict, even if changes could be auto-merged? > > ---- > Ilya > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__javascript.info&d=DwIFAg&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=yZMPY-APGKyVIX7HgQFZJA&m=fywBEjNJhlI37lKNhH6u90hEOBCF5PqmRunhDCRO0Fg&s=We1ibeYQn4Z4Gf53M4CUyENq_BHhavulOg20KJIRxOg&e=