Git merge -s theirs: Simply?

Question

I have checked out the various questions on this. The first provides a huge question and answer (relevant? not sure) and the second provides a wrong answer as best answer.

Answer 1

Ran into this problem the other day:

httpx://seanius.net/blog/2011/02/git-merge-s-theirs/

Update: Old url is down. Here is the article via Archive.org's Wayback Machine:

git merge -s ours ref-to-be-merged
git diff --binary ref-to-be-merged | git apply -R --index
git commit -F .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG --amend