How to do 'git checkout --theirs' for multiple files (or all unmerged files)

Say I have this after attempting a merge and upon entering git status:

# Unmerged paths: # (use "git add/rm <file>..." as appropriate to mark resolution) # # added by them: myfile1.xhtml # added by them: myfile2.xhtml # added by them: myfile3.xhtml 

... and I know I want to do this for each of those files:

git checkout --theirs myfile1.xhtml git add myfile1.xhtml 

... but there are many of them. How might I do them as a batch?

4 Answers

The solution for my case ended up being to simply use a wildcard in the directory path, since the files were grouped:

git checkout --theirs directory_name/* git add directory_name/* 

This may also work, according to helios456:

git checkout --theirs directory_name/. 

You can use the below commands to checkout multiples files on unmerged path

git checkout --theirs `git status | grep "added by them:" | awk '{print $NF}'` 

execute the below command to commit the above files

git commit `git status | grep "added by them:" | awk '{print $NF}'` 

If your files are deeper than one directory (ie. there are subdirectories) and you want to selectively recursively choose all their files for a directory, then use the following:

grep -lr '<<<<<<<' directory_name/ | xargs git checkout --theirs git add directory_name/* 

(from this page)

This checks out all unmerged files without specifying the directory:

git ls-files --unmerged | perl -n -e'/\t(.*)/ && print "$1\n"' | uniq | xargs -r git checkout --theirs -- 

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