diff --git a/tools/git-if-needed/tests/data/conflict-in-readme.patch b/tools/git-if-needed/tests/data/conflict-in-readme.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..335e905
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/git-if-needed/tests/data/conflict-in-readme.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From 7acc0c08b31c46a358e496cf69fb2750bfdbe823 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Peter Penchev <openstack-dev@storpool.com>
+Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 23:25:13 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Make a conflicting change to the README file.
+
+Change-Id: I74a6d83a52acb5c72d088c0c3d1d74f10c5f592f
+---
+ README.txt | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
+index e16c97f..0ed1e0e 100644
+--- a/README.txt
++++ b/README.txt
+@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
+ This is a sample Git repository for testing the operation of
+-the git-if-needed tool.
++the git-if-needed tool. There is nothing more to it.
+-- 
+2.24.0
+