Modifying .git folder in a remote repo

Question

I needed to retain the current file in the master branch while merging the other changes from the branch. I used the .gitattributes file to specify a driver which only merges ours. It all worked fine locally but when I tried to merge in the git provider it throwed a merge conflict. I can't find a way to set the driver in the hosted remote repository. Then I added a .gitconfig file which will store the merge settings and I updated the .git/config file to include the custom .gitconfig. file I included int the root of the repo.

My local config path looks like this:

[include]
path = ../.gitconfig

I need a way to replicate this in the remote repo. Is that even possible ?

Answer 1

It looks like the hosting platform for your remote is a managed service, I would ask technical support about your use case.

Depending on how "merging" is implemented on their platform (do they run the merge directly on the central repo, or on a clone ? do they use a stock git binary ? or some implementation on top of libgit ? jgit ? go-git ? ...) the elements to install or activate may be completely different than what you would have on your local machine.