How can I use “git merge – force”?

244    Asked by ChloeBurgess in Devops , Asked on Dec 14, 2023

I was working with one of my teammates, me and my teammate were working on separate branches. When I wanted to merge my branch into the main one which was previously changed by my teammate, a conflict was raised. How can I utilize “git merge—force” in this scenario? 

Answered by Charles Parr

 In the context of DevOps, you are not advised to use “git merge force” in your scenario due to its forceful nature. This specific command can override the target branch with the source branch and can lead to potentially discarding the commits and even altering the histories.

To handle the conflict changes while merging your branch into the main one, you can try this structure:-

Git checkout 
Git merge main # Resolve conflicts here
Git commit – m “merge branch ‘main’ into

This above structure would help you to preserve commit history and also ensure a careful integration of changes from both branches. Therefore, it will manually avoid the conflicts in your case and ensure that you and your teammate both can enjoy a seamless workflow.

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