How do I tell git to always select my local version for conflicted merges on a specific file?

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Published on 2009-05-30T00:29:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 19:04 UTC
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Say I'm collaborating with someone via a git repository, and there is a particular file that I never want to accept any external changes to.

Is there any way for me to set up my local repo to not complain about a conflicted merge every time I git pull? I'd like to always select my local version when merging this file.

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