git-merge-conflict

I just merged a branch into my master in git and I got Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result. Now I ran git mergetool and vimdiff opened with the image below. I don't know how to use vimdiff. What does each panel here mean and how should I proceed to fix the merge conflict? chepner All four buffers provide a different view of the same file. The top left buffer (LOCAL) is how the file looked in your target branch (what you are merging into). The top right buffer (REMOTE) is how the file looked in your source branch (where you are merging from). The middle buffer (BASE

I am on branch mybranch1 . mybranch2 is forked from mybranch1 and changes were made in mybranch2 . Then, while on mybranch1 , I have done git merge --no-commit mybranch2 It shows there were conflicts while merging. Now I want do discard everything (the merge command) so that mybranch1 is back to what it was before. I have no idea how do I go about this. Latest Git: git merge --abort This attempts to reset your working copy to whatever state it was in before the merge. That means that it should restore any uncommitted changes from before the merge, although it cannot always do so reliably.

I have some local files, I pull from remote branch and there are conflicts. I know that I would like to keep my local changes and ignore the remote changes causing conflicts. Is there a command I can use to in effect say "mark all conflicts as resolved, use local"? Brian Campbell git checkout has the --ours option to check out the version of the file that you had locally (as opposed to --theirs , which is the version that you pulled in). You can pass . to git checkout to tell it to check out everything in the tree. Then you need to mark the conflicts as resolved, which you can do with git add

I am in the middle of rebasing after a git pull --rebase . I have a few files that have merge conflicts. How can I accept "their" changes or "my" changes for specific files? $ git status # Not currently on any branch. # You are currently rebasing. # (fix conflicts and then run "git rebase --continue") # (use "git rebase --skip" to skip this patch) # (use "git rebase --abort" to check out the original branch) # # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # modified: CorrectlyMergedFile # # Unmerged paths: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # (use "git

This question already has an answer here: Git merge left HEAD marks in my files 5 answers After I pulled from remote branch, I got conflict, when I open the file it looks something like below: <<<<<<< HEAD:file.txt Hello world ======= Goodbye >>>>>>> 77976da35a11db4580b80ae27e8d65caf5208086:file.txt I need some explanations of the markers, which portion of code is pulled from remote and which is from local? What does the code 77976da35a11db4580b80ae27e8d65caf5208086 stand for? Mark Longair The line (or lines) between the lines beginning <<<<<<< and ====== here: <<<<<<< HEAD:file.txt Hello