How to resolve merge conflicts in Git?

To resolve merge conflicts in Git, you can follow these steps:

  1. Use the git status command to check which files have conflicts.

  2. Open the conflicting file(s) in your code editor and look for the conflict markers. They typically look like this:

<<<<<<< HEAD Your changes ======= Incoming changes >>>>>>> branch-name
  1. Decide which changes to keep. You can choose to keep your changes, accept the incoming changes, or manually modify the code to merge both changes together.

  2. Remove the conflict markers and any unnecessary code that was added by the conflict.

  3. Save the file and stage it using git add <file>.

  4. Once you have resolved all conflicts, use git commit to create a new commit with the resolved changes. Git will automatically associate this commit with the merge.

  5. If you were working on a branch and have finished resolving conflicts, you can now merge your branch into the main branch using git merge <branch-name>. Alternatively, if you were in the middle of a merge and need to continue it, use git merge --continue.

It's important to note that conflicts may occur in multiple files, so it's necessary to repeat these steps for each conflicting file until all conflicts are resolved.