Why would one use “git merge -s ours”?

Question

I understand that the \"ours\" merge strategy (hear the quotes around merge?) actually does not use any commits from the other branch.

The \"ours\" strategy is

Answer 1

One use is to "skip" a commit made on a maintenance branch that isn't intended to go back into your main/trunk branch of development. See this previous question for an example: git - skipping specific commits when merging