Git merge reports “Already up-to-date” though there is a difference

The message “Already up-to-date” means that all the changes from the branch you’re trying to merge have already been merged to the branch you’re currently on. More specifically it means that the branch you’re trying to merge is a parent of your current branch. Congratulations, that’s the easiest merge you’ll ever do. 🙂 Use gitk … Read more

What to do with branch after merge

After the merge, it’s safe to delete the branch: git branch -d branch1 Additionally, git will warn you (and refuse to delete the branch) if it thinks you didn’t fully merge it yet. If you forcefully delete a branch (with git branch -D) which is not completely merged yet, you have to do some tricks … Read more

When would you use the different git merge strategies?

I’m not familiar with resolve, but I’ve used the others: Recursive Recursive is the default for non-fast-forward merges. We’re all familiar with that one. Octopus I’ve used octopus when I’ve had several trees that needed to be merged. You see this in larger projects where many branches have had independent development and it’s all ready … Read more

What is the precise meaning of “ours” and “theirs” in git?

I suspect you’re confused here because it’s fundamentally confusing. To make things worse, the whole ours/theirs stuff switches roles (becomes backwards) when you are doing a rebase. Ultimately, during a git merge, the “ours” branch refers to the branch you’re merging into: git checkout merge-into-ours and the “theirs” branch refers to the (single) branch you’re … Read more

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