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Asked: 2026-05-11T02:28:14+00:00

Suppose I have two branches of a project IMClient-MacOS and IMClient-Windows, and their code

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Suppose I have two branches of a project IMClient-MacOS and IMClient-Windows, and their code only differs by (let’s say) one directory main/. All the other directories contain system-independent code and are interchangeable.

Some workers work on the Windows version, and some work on the MacOS version. How do they prevent overwriting changing into the main/ directory when they merge from their counterparts’ branch? Is there a way to merge in Git that will always ignore the OS-dependent directory?

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  1. You can probably solve your problem with git, but your life will be vastly simpler if you put the system-dependent code in different directories and deal with the cross-platform dependencies in the build system (Makefiles or whatever you use). Or is there some good reason I’ve overlooked to have code from different systems share one directory?

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