MERGE A BRANCH TO MASTER GIT HOW TO
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MERGE A BRANCH TO MASTER GIT HOW TO

In previous articles, you learned “ How to Revert a Commit in Git” (a PowerShell Git tutorial) and “ How to Merge in Git: Remote and Local Git Repositories Tutorial.” You can also use Git to create branches in your project.

So we have a special commit on top of all changes created using merge conflict. If we now see the git history in the Visual Studio, we would see something like below: Git history after resolving merge conflictsĪgain, recursive merge is the only strategy followed in case of merge conflicts. Once we have modified file as per our requirement, we can then inform Visual Studio to take the appropriate version and complete merge. We can also choose to compare files which would allow us to see the difference between source and target. We can then decide if we want to keep file which was modified in source or which was modified in target: Resolving merge conflicts – view files causing conflicts Let’s click on conflict to see which file is causing this issue.

It will then inform us that merge operation is in progress and it has encountered conflict for 1 file: Resolving merge conflicts Let’s try to merge these two branches using Visual Studio. Note from our previous blog posts that we have also modified this file in the newQuickFix branch. To reproduce above scenario, we’ll add a file named Class06.cs to master branch and commit our changes. At this point, Git will no longer perform auto merging.

Also there is a graph which shows the commits from other branches: Checking history after recursive merge Resolve Merge ConflictsĪs we have seen in previous blog post that if you changed the same part of the same file differently in the two branches you’re merging together, Git won’t be able to merge them cleanly. This should provide a window like below where we need to click ‘commit staged’ to complete merge operation: Perform commit explicitly to commit mergeĪs we have seen earlier for recursive merge, git will create a special commit called merge commit of top of last commit. To resolve this, go to home icon in team explorer, select changes and then click merge. Then we’ll see following window where Visual Studio prints a message asking us that a commit needs to performed explicitly: Result window asking to commit explicitly Again checkout master branch, click merge, select source branch but this time we’ll uncheck box for ‘commit changes after merging’: Uncheck ‘commit changes after merging’ checkbox We can also verify using git history that merge has completed indeed: Merge results after fast forward merge 3-way Merge / Recursive Mergeįirst, let’s reset everything back to commit before merge by using git reset –hard.

MERGE A BRANCH TO MASTER GIT CODE

Same as Git command, you need to be on master branch (target branch or branch which needs to incorporate source code changes) to merge newQuickFix branch (source branch or branch which has required source code changes): Fill source branch name and click merge Click Merge from the menu: Select merge after checking out master branch Checkout master branch by double click on it. Now, go to team explorer and select branches. Now check the current git history by going to right click project -> source control -> view history: Fast-forward Merge / Simple Mergeįirst, let’s reset everything back to commit before merge by using git reset –hard so that we can now compare the results how we did in previous post vs using visual studio. In this blog post, we’ll learn how to do the same by using Visual Studio. In previous blog post, we discussed what is Git Merge, types of Merging and how to achieve the same using git native commands. You can find the previous blog post here.

MERGE A BRANCH TO MASTER GIT SERIES

This post is part of the series of posts on the Git and Visual Studio where we are discussing in detail on meaning of basic git operations, how to do them in Git and Visual Studio both and understand the difference of both tools.

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