In my case I could not see the Resolve the conflicts option because I had local changes not committed yet and I was trying to sync with the remote changes. As soon as I committed my local changes and then tried a sync again, Resolve the conflicts link appeared. So the point here is: commit … Read more
If you merge a branch A into a branch B the conflicts that you get come from the difference between both branches and not from the difference with master. executing git diff in A or B will give you however the diff with mastere since it is the ancestor Normally the local branch should be … Read more
I want to know if I can merge MASTER into TEST1, so I get the commits from master on test, and after I finish my feature on test1, merge that again to MASTER. is that possible? or it will raise conflicts? That exactly how it is done. You may get conflict when you merge master … Read more
git merge -s recursive -X ours foo
git merge -Xours origin/master will do a merge with origin/master (the same thing that git pull origin master does) and will resolve any conflicts by taking the versions from your local branch. If you’re already part-way through the bad merge, you can reset everything to the head first with git reset –hard HEAD. In that … Read more
This is a pretty subjective question, but I will give it a pass because I think I can come up with a fairly objective answer. It’s a great practice to merge master back into your branch before merging it. What if someone else had committed something that broke the feature you just implemented (as you … Read more
I found an answer on another question on Stack Overflow, credit goes to fcurella: Let’s say you want to exclude the file config.php On branch A: Create a file named .gitattributes in the same dir, with this line: config.php merge=ours. This tells git what strategy to use when merging the file. In this case it … Read more
The following pre-receive hook will block those: #/bin/bash # Copyright (c) 2016 G. Sylvie Davies. http://bit-booster.com/ # Copyright (c) 2016 torek. http://stackoverflow.com/users/1256452/torek # License: MIT license. https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT while read oldrev newrev refname do if [ “$refname” = “refs/heads/master” ]; then MATCH=`git log –first-parent –pretty=’%H %P’ $oldrev..$newrev | grep $oldrev | awk ‘{ print \$2 }’` … Read more
Given the following test-setup: git init resolving-rename-conflicts cd resolving-rename-conflicts echo “this file we will rename” > will-be-renamed.txt git add -A git commit -m “initial commit” git checkout -b branch1 git rename will-be-renamed.txt new-name-1.txt git commit -a -m “renamed a file on branch1” git checkout -b branch2 master git rename will-be-renamed.txt new-name-2.txt git commit -a -m … Read more
I encountered same problem 4 days ago and what I have done is I opened my online repo in git site and went into repo settings and clicked on branches option. I changed the default branch from main to master and i later deleted the main branch as it was empty. tell me if this … Read more