Please do following set of commands in order to merge with the master, Assuming that you are in branch testBranch and you want to merge the changes with the master, First checkout to master branch, Now pull the latest changes in master, Merge with the testBranch Push the changes to master That’s it, you are done.
It’s not a Git error message, it’s the editor as git uses your default editor. To solve this: press “i” (i for insert) write your merge message press “esc” (escape) write “:wq” (write & quit) then press enter
Say your bug fix branch is called bugfix and you want to merge it into master: This will take all the commits from the bugfix branch, squash them into 1 commit, and merge it with your master branch. Explanation: Switches to your master branch. Takes all commits from the bugfix branch and groups it for a 1 commit with your current branch.(no merge commit appears; you … Read more
Say your bug fix branch is called bugfix and you want to merge it into master: This will take all the commits from the bugfix branch, squash them into 1 commit, and merge it with your master branch. Explanation: Switches to your master branch. Takes all commits from the bugfix branch and groups it for … Read more
Try: git mergetool It opens a GUI that steps you through each conflict, and you get to choose how to merge. Sometimes it requires a bit of hand editing afterwards, but usually it’s enough by itself. It is much better than doing the whole thing by hand certainly. As per Josh Glover’s comment: The command … Read more
as long as you did not commit you can type just as the command line suggested.
How do we merge the master branch into the feature branch? Easy: There is no point in forcing a fast forward merge here, as it cannot be done. You committed both into the feature branch and the master branch. Fast forward is impossible now. Have a look at GitFlow. It is a branching model for … Read more
With git reflog check which commit is one prior the merge (git reflog will be a better option than git log). Then you can reset it using: There’s also another way: It will get you back 1 commit. Be aware that any modified and uncommitted/unstashed files will be reset to their unmodified state. To keep them either stash changes … Read more
How I would do this If I have a local branch from a remote one, I don’t feel comfortable with merging other branches than this one with the remote. Also I would not push my changes, until I’m happy with what I want to push and also I wouldn’t push things at all, that are … Read more