Git says “Automatic merge failed”, what does it mean?

I tried to merge two branches and this is what i did and what happened:

Abdulla (Master) new-git-project1
$ git merge sidebar
Auto-merging index.html
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in index.html
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
Abdulla (Master *+|MERGING) new-git-project1
$ git merge sidebar
error: Merging is not possible because you have unmerged files.
hint: Fix them up in the work tree, and then use 'git add/rm <file>'
hint: as appropriate to mark resolution and make a commit.
fatal: Exiting because of an unresolved conflict.

i am new to this so can i get simple answers.

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