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merge-conflicts

Resolve an in-progress Git merge or rebase conflict without losing either change's intent. Use when Git reports unresolved conflict markers during a merge or rebase.

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merge-conflicts
description
Resolve an in-progress Git merge or rebase conflict without losing either change's intent. Use when Git reports unresolved conflict markers during a merge or rebase.
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MIT
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{"author":"ContractorKeith","version":"1.0.0","domain":"engineering","scope":"integration","output-format":"resolved-conflicts","related-skills":"code-review, ship"}
# Merge Conflicts Resolve the conflict in front of you. Do not abort the merge or rebase. ## Read the situation Start with the repository state, history, and unresolved files. Use `git status`, inspect the conflict hunks, and identify whether Git is merging or rebasing. ## Recover both intents For each conflicted hunk, trace both sides to their primary sources: commits, commit messages, pull requests, and the issue or ticket that motivated them. Understand what each change was meant to preserve before editing. ## Make the smallest correct resolution - Preserve both intents when they work together. - When they cannot coexist, choose the behavior that serves the stated goal of the merge or rebase and record the trade-off. - Do not introduce unrelated behavior while resolving the hunk. - Remove every conflict marker and inspect the final combined code, not only the edited lines. ## Prove and finish Discover the project's checks and run the relevant formatter, type check, and tests. Fix any breakage caused by integrating the changes. Stage the resolved files. For a merge, create the merge commit when Git needs one. For a rebase, run `git rebase --continue` and repeat the same process for each remaining conflict until the rebase completes.
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