What I can do to resolve “1 commit behind master”?

Before you begin, if you are uncomfortable with a command line, you can do all the following steps using SourceTree, GitExtensions, GitHub Desktop, or your favorite tool. To solve the issue, you might have two scenarios: 1. Fix only remote repository branch which is behind commit Example: Both branches are on the remote side ahead …

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Is there some kind of ‘git rebase –dry-run’, which would notify me of conflicts in advance?

At the time of writing (Git v2.6.1 v2.10.0), the git rebase command offers no –dry-run option. There is no way of knowing, before actually attempting a rebase, whether or not you’re going to run into conflicts. However, if you run git rebase and hit a conflict, the process will stop and exit with a nonzero …

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Choose Git merge strategy for specific files (“ours”, “mine”, “theirs”)

For each conflicted file you get, you can specify git checkout –ours — <paths> # or git checkout –theirs — <paths> From the git checkout docs git checkout [-f|–ours|–theirs|-m|–conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [–] <paths>… –ours –theirs When checking out paths from the index, check out stage #2 (ours) or #3 (theirs) for unmerged paths. The index may …

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