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Add ability to `git merge -s ours --allow-unrelated-histories`

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating pygit2's existing merge bindings and checking how merge strategies and unrelated histories are handled; done means callers can request the equivalent of git merge -s ours --allow-unrelated-histories with coverage for that behavior.

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Description

I found that pygit2 can't do that, but I need this feature.

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Merged PRs (30d)
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