Official documentation: https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-1/develop/platform/sling-resource-merger.html#Properties

Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32622443/how-to-prevent-cqdialog-inheritance

Sling Resource Merging with AEM docs can be found here. Specifically look through the docs for the resource merger properties and how you can manipulate different properties.

The resource merger provides the following properties:

sling:hideProperties (String or String[]) Specifies the property, or list of properties, to hide. The wildcard * hides all.

sling:hideResource (Boolean) Indicates whether the resources should be completely hidden, including its children.

sling:hideChildren (String or String[]) Contains the child node, or list of child nodes, to hide. The properties of the node will be maintained. The wildcard * hides all.

sling:orderBefore (String) Contains the name of the sibling node that the current node should be positioned in front of.

These properties affect how the corresponding/original resources/properties (from /libs) are used by the overlay/override (often in /apps).