GitHub today announced a major update to its visual Git client, GitHub Desktop. Version 1.5 introduces a new way to resolve merge conflicts, which are inevitable when working on a project with a team.

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What happens when the tools designed to simplify collaboration become the source of chaos? For developers working in shared codebases, the term “merge hell” is more than just a catchy phrase, it’s a ...

Sublime HQ – the folks behind the excellent text editor Sublime Text – has released a code editor for developers that focuses on a clean interface for coding and solving git merges. It’s called ...

We have a branch that we need to merge into master/main. However, that branch has been sitting still for the most part of several months and there have been lots of commits into master/main, several ...

If you get Fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting GIT pull error, follow the solutions mentioned below to resolve the issue. Pull the rebase Merge the changes from the master branch into a new ...