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Git for Programmers

You're reading from  Git for Programmers

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075732
Pages 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jesse Liberty Jesse Liberty
Profile icon Jesse Liberty

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Creating Your Repository 3. Branching, Places, and GUIs 4. Merging, Pull Requests, and Handling Merge Conflicts 5. Rebasing, Amend, and Cherry-Picking 6. Interactive Rebasing 7. Workflow, Notes, and Tags 8. Aliases 9. Using the Log 10. Important Git Commands and Metadata 11. Finding a Broken Commit: Bisect and Blame 12. Fixing Mistakes 13. Next Steps
14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

Merging overview

If you are on a feature branch, and the feature is sufficiently complete and tested, you will want to merge your branch back into the main branch. Some organizations let you simply merge, others (most?) require that you create a Pull Request (PR). A PR says, essentially, "Please examine my code and if you think it is right, merge it into the main branch."

Having a second (or third) set of eyes on your code before merging can save a lot of headaches later on (see Chapter 12, Fixing Mistakes (Undo), on fixing mistakes).

Often, if you've been careful (see below) you will merge without a problem. From time to time, however, you will run into the dreaded merge conflict. You'll see below a couple ways to handle that conflict.

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You will remember from the previous chapter that we have a directory, C:\GitHub\VisualStudio\ProGitForProgrammers, that is the home of the Books application and that we've been editing in Visual Studio...

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