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The Selective Merge feature allows you to achieve a selective deployment of configuration changes during deployments. The idea is that you can choose which configuration changes to apply or not to the target Jira. You can skip or alter some of the configuration changes that Configuration Manager plans to execute on will be made to objects in your target Jira instance . or skip any modification altogether by deploying them as new objects.
When deploying configuration snapshots on a target Jira instance, you might face conflicting configuration changes, or you might have a list of configuration elements that you would like to keep unchanged on the target instance after the deployment. As a result, you need mechanisms to control how configuration elements from a snapshot will be deployed on the target system.
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Skip changes to configuration elements on the target Jira instance by deploying them as new objects.
Alter changes - modify to adjust the snapshot and target object pairs.
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