Choosing all the remotely changed files in a git conflicted merge

Stricken with fear at the thought of handling a huge conflicted merge file by file, when you know you can just pick one side of the conflict and be done with it?

When

git pull

gives you the bad news...

git mergetool

is usually the first recourse.

Used meld, my default for git mergetool, for the first one. Which fortunately was the only one i wanted to merge manually.

I refused to merge the next one and then took the provided opportunity to cancel the merge.

Then:

git checkout --theirs databases/development/
git add databases/development
gcm "Chose remote for all development database dump."

(Where gcm happens to be an alias to git commit -m on my system.)

This works equally well for choosing all locally modified files, of course, with the --ours flag instead of --theirs.