Merge "Develop Settings" instead of replace?

Hi there,
I know that I can copy develop settings from one photo to another.
This overwrites the settings in the target photo.
How can I merge the settings of 2 source photos into a third photo?
I have certain adjustments in A, certain in B and want C to include all of these settings
Thanks a lot,
Christoph

Off the top of my head, I don't think you can merge these from two different photos to a third photo.
Maybe if you were really smart and wrote the edits to XMP and then edited the XMP with some sort of text editor, you might be able to merge the results, but that's pure speculation on my part.

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