Sometimes, when merging from master into your branch, or from
a branch into master, there will be merge conflicts.
These are one or more areas within a file where there are conflicting
sets of changes, and Git could not do the merge for you.
In this case, the conflicted area will be delimited by the traditional
conflict markers, ‘<<<’, ‘===’ and ‘>>>’.
Your mission is then to edit the file and resolve the conflict by fixing the order of additions (such as in a ChangeLog file), or fixing the code to take new changes into account.
Once you have done so, you tell Git that everything is OK using ‘git add’ and ‘git commit’:
$ git checkout feature/python Move back to new, purely local branch $ git rebase master “Start over” from current master -| ... Kaboom! Conflict. FIXME: Show real output here $ gvim main.c Edit the file and fix the problem $ git add main.c Tell Git everything is OK now … $ git commit … and it’s settled $ git rebase --continue Continue the rebase
The git rebase --continue then continues the process of
rebasing the current branch that we started in Rebasing.
It’s not necessary if you are using ‘git merge’
(see Points to remember).