Exclude a directory while merging

Colleagues,

Is there an easy way to exclude a directory from a merge operation.
Specifically:

We have a "master" branch. We also have an "other" branch. There is a
directory XYZ in the other branch which is not in the master. I need to
merge everything but XYZ into master. Something like that:

git checkout master
git merge other --exclude XYZ

Is that possible?

Thank you!
Vlad


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