Phase 2 · Git & GitHub

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Merge

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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