Merge a branch into the current branch with git merge
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Documented steps
Check out the branch you want to merge INTO: git switch main.
Ensure the target branch is up to date with the remote if needed: git fetch origin, then git merge origin/main or git pull.
Merge the incoming branch: git merge feature. Git replays the changes from feature since the divergence and creates a merge commit (unless it can fast-forward).
If a conflict occurs, git stops and marks conflicted files with conflict markers; edit the files to resolve, then git add <resolved>, then git merge --continue to finish.
To abort a conflicted merge restore the pre-merge state: git merge --abort.
To always create a merge commit even when a fast-forward is possible, use git merge --no-ff feature; to only fast-forward (never a merge commit), use git merge --ff-only.
Known gotchas
git merge with non-trivial uncommitted local changes is discouraged and can leave you in a state that is hard to back out of; commit or stash first.
A fast-forward merge does not create a merge commit, so --no-commit cannot stop one — combine --no-ff with --no-commit if you need that.
The default merge strategy is 'ort' for a single head; passing -X <option> implies the ort strategy.
git merge --abort could fail if you had uncommitted changes that were modified during the merge.
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