As it has been said, it follows other git features. I disagree that rules based on specificity are better. Sometimes I had a hard time reasoning about conflicti

As it has been said, it follows other git features. I disagree that rules based on specificity are better. Sometimes I had a hard time reasoning about conflicting CSS rules with different levels of specificity, while I never had any problem with precedence based rules. In any case, every feature like this should have an easy way to preview what a change does.