Git merge strategy to ignore deleted files

Question

I have special branch (release branch) which is an exact copy of master branch with some files and directories removed. No development is happening on this branch, however i

Answer 1

By having a look at this question, it looks like the recursive strategy with ours or their option doesn't consider a deletion as a conflict.

What you can do though is use this feature to specify a specific strategy for some files. I would bet that the ours strategy (not option) would do the trick for those files.

EDIT:

As stated in the comment, you can't do this !

You should definitly contact Git mailing list if this is a very important feature to you (git@vger.kernel.org)