Is it possible to do a partial merge with --ff-only changes?
I have a local branch that needs to be merged with the remote. Both remote and local branches have lots of different commits (on various files). Is it possible to identify and merge the files which have only fast-forward type (remote-side) changes? I would like to deal with all the other changes manually. git merge --ff-only does not merge anything when there is any two-sided changes. Edit: I would like to make the question more clear. Let's say the original files (on parent node) are file1, file2, file3, file4. My local branch, I modified file1, file2, deleted file4, added file5. In their