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/7539#issuecomment-1438877252,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/7539,1438877252,IC_kwDOAMm_X85Vw4ZE,35968931,2023-02-21T17:48:30Z,2023-02-21T17:48:30Z,MEMBER,"> Or indeed at least make it clearer in the docs that something like drop_indexes or reset_coords should be used first in order to skip auto-alignment for some variables.

I think we should do this regardless. I don't know of anywhere in the docs that these kind of subtleties with `concat` are clearly documented.

> I guess easiest for a concat version with no auto-alignment would be to drop the index when such case happens.

Right - in this case that would have given the intuitive result.


> We could get halfway to a better xr.concat by changing https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/2064 IMO.
>
> I propose join=""exact"", data_vars=""minimal"", coords=""minimal"", compat=""override""

That wouldn't have helped with this specific issue though right?



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