html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/1823#issuecomment-489064553,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/1823,489064553,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQ4OTA2NDU1Mw==,3404817,2019-05-03T11:26:06Z,2019-05-03T11:36:44Z,CONTRIBUTOR,"The original issue of this thread is that you sometimes might want to *disable* alignment checks for coordinates other than the `concat_dim` and only check for same dimensions and dimension shapes. When you `xr.merge` with `join='exact'`, it still checks for alignment (see https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/1330#issuecomment-302711852), but does not join the coordinates if they are not aligned. This behavior (not joining) is also included in what @rabernat envisioned here, but his suggestion goes beyond that: you don't even load coordinate values from all but the first dataset and just blindly trust that they are aligned. So `xr.open_mfdataset(join='exact', coords='minimal')` does not fix this issue here, I think.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,288184220