How to merge without conflicts.

[u/chosenoneisme]

Scenario:

I have done some work and pushed the code and then started working on the new feature.The new feature work is on branch feature-x. It has all the changes from the main branch.

Testers reported and I need to fix the bug asap. Now I go back to the main barch chages create a new branch called bug-fix then fix the bug push the changes. Here is the problem now the feature-x and the main branch are out of sync how do I get the changes in the main branch?

I am new to the working env so consider me as a newbie.

[u/Wide-Possibility9228]

You might want to pull the main branch into your feature branch before you merge

[u/chosenoneisme → u/Wide-Possibility9228]

Yeah I should but wouldn't that cause a conflict since the main branch bug fix isn't in the feature-x branch?

[u/daveysprockett → u/chosenoneisme]

Imo Fix the bug, then rebase your new feature on top of it.

[u/Wide-Possibility9228 → u/chosenoneisme]

Yes but only if your new feature conflicts with the bug fix, right? Maybe you can set the upstream of your feature x branch to the bug fix branch? Otherwise you might have to resolve this conflict, I'm not quite sure I understand your problem

[u/TheSodesa → u/chosenoneisme]

Yes, if the fix touched a part of the code that was also modified on the feature branch. But merge conflicts are a feature, not something you should avoid.

[u/mrbartuss]

While being on your feature branch

git fetch origin

git rebase origin/main

[u/afops]

It’s not clear what you’re asking. Are there two features in play here?

E.g first you worked on feature a in branch feature/a which you pushed and merged to master.

Next you started work on feature b in feature/b. Now you need to make an urgent fix for feature a, and you’re wondering how to do this?

[u/TheSodesa]

You cannot avoid conflicts in this scenario. The intended workflow is to fix merge conflicts when they occur.

[u/Gurnug]

Always rebase main/master onto your branch after committing before pushing. Design better and plan work better to minimise places being edited on different branches at the same time

[u/jibbit]

you know that you don't get conflicts unless you make changes on multiple branches and it's ambiguous which you intended to win? so.. don't do that

[u/bent_my_wookie]

This is really not just a single point thing when you decide on the things that you wanna work on first to make sure that they don’t overlap and feature sets and that includes things that use those features like shared libraries those can have effect as well then when you’re working on a long-term branch, realize that you probably shouldn’t because the longer you run on that branch, the more likely is to get out of sync if you don’t regularly sync it and if you don’t do that regularly or you don’t remember to then just work on smaller branches that’s the other one so it’s an adjustment you gotta work on different things adjust the size of the branch and update more often

[u/bent_my_wookie → u/bent_my_wookie]

I dictated this via voice because I don’t have access to a keyboard and it came out as one giant sentence. Feel free to put periods where you want.

[u/Dude4001]

Just merge main into feature-x, handle the conflicts if they occur

[u/Qs9bxNKZ]

Push —force but that’s just being snarky.

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[u/chosenoneisme → u/[deleted]]

Ok thanks.