diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 59175dee0..06763cfc8 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -12,3 +12,10 @@ yarn.lock                    merge=binary
 # For more information, see this issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/web-build-tools/issues/1088
 #
 *.json                       linguist-language=JSON-with-Comments
+
+# Reduce incidence of needless merge conflicts on CHANGELOG.md
+# The man page at
+# https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitattributes.html
+# suggests that this might interleave lines arbitrarily, but empirically
+# it keeps added chunks contiguous
+CHANGELOG.md                merge=union
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