alt Hacker NewsI can fully understand a conflict, know it's coming, and fear it anyway because I'll have to deal with Git's behavior to fix it.
I can fully understand a conflict, know it's coming, and fear it anyway because I'll have to deal with Git's behavior to fix it.
Such as?
When you merge a commit in that changed a file that has been already changed since the common ancestor, Git runs a tool of your choice on this file. If the tool fails, it marks the file as needing a merge and doesn't let you commit it until you unmark it to confirm that you have merged it manually. In case of octopus merges, it will just abort early. That's basically its whole behavior when it comes to conflicts.