This is because the default will send you into the vim editor and you will join the many of us that quote Cassidy Williams’ tweet “I’m an aspiring vim user and I’m looking for how to exit”.įYI to quit vim you can hit ESC, followed by :, then q! If you are like me and a mac user who is not interested in learning the eccentricities of vim as a text editor - then you will want to setup your editor in the config files. In Git we can configure things on our local machines about our identity (username, email) and our editor (which text editor we want to use for entering messages). There is some really helpful advice on the Git Documentation Website about how to setup your config files. ![]() But it doesn’t have to be!įirst things first, we should configure the tools we will use for the job. Using the command line is always a little more hairy in my opinion. Phew - conflict resolved! □ Method 2 :: Using the Command Line So let’s see how using the GitHub web UI goes:įor this example I created a repository on the web UI using the create a new repository option from the homepage of GitHub. I have no shame in admitting that it took me almost a year from creating a GitHub account to making my first pull request. As an exercise, this covers several of the things that as a beginner I found totally baffling. In my intro to Git workshops, I teach how to resolve merge conflicts to people by using a single text file in a repository. It is one of the many points in Git that allows you to “check yourself before you wreck yourself” and this is when we need to use one of the following methods to resolve the conflict. So in this instance, if we go into our file and change one of the existing lines of code or text and try to complete a merge (of any kind), Git will have a tiny panic.īut you don’t need to worry, as Git can resolve these conflicts perfectly fine it sends these warnings as a way to let you know that it needs more information about the changes you want to make. Remember that computers are not the smartest of creatures, you have to tell them explicitly what you want, or they panic. Merge conflicts occur when the changes are a little more complex. Regardless of whether that merge is performed through merging your changes with a remote version of that repository on GitHub or merging your current branch back into the master branch on your local repository. So when you go to combine two versions of that file (or “merge” them), it will do so quite happily. git file that tracks all your changes), we can make changes that won’t cause a merge conflict.įor example, if you add lines of code (or any text) to the end of a file Git can recognise that you haven’t changed any of the existing content. When we edit files within a repository (repository: think regular folder with a super smart. ![]() Merge conflicts may occur if competing changes are made to the same line of a file or when a file is deleted that another person is attempting to edit. ![]() First Things First, Merge Conflicts - What Are They? Then we will cover three ways to resolve them using the Web UI (which stands for User Interface) on GitHub, the Command Line and the GitHub Desktop App. In this blog post I am going to show you how to solve a merge conflict.įirst we will look at what a merge conflict is and why they occur. Learning how to use version control can be hella frustrating especially if you do not work in a role that requires you to use a version control system (VCS) like Git on a daily basis. Got a merge conflict & now you’re in Vim? Don’t panic, here’s what that means & what you can do to resolve it. ![]() How Do I Git? Three Ways to Solve a Merge Conflict…
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