Managing Conflicts When Rebasing
Understand why conflicts occur during Git rebase when changes overlap between branches. Learn to identify conflicting files, manually resolve these conflicts, stage your changes, and continue or abort the rebase process. This lesson guides you through practical steps to manage rebase conflicts, ensuring smoother version control and collaboration.
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In the previous lesson, we discussed what rebasing does and also tested out a scenario where we were able to carry out and observe a successful rebase operation.
However, it’s not all that simple.
Why conflicts can occur when rebasing
What if you decided to rebase your branch with the latest version of the parent branch, which contains new commits that have changed the same files at the same location within those files where you have also included your changes?
Do note that when a rebase is carried out, it takes place commit by commit. Therefore, what would happen if one of the parent branch’s commit conflicted ...