Phase 2 · Git & GitHub
TopicsMerge
Part of the Full Stack Developer Roadmap.
Summary
`git merge` combines the history of one branch into another, creating a merge commit (or fast-forwarding) to bring the changes together.
How to Learn This
- 1Merge a feature branch into `main` and inspect the resulting commit graph.
- 2Learn the difference between a fast-forward merge and a 3-way merge.
- 3Deliberately create a merge conflict in a sandbox repo to practice resolving it.
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