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It happens each time!
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You need to merge more often.
Rebase. That's where the real trauma is.
Neither rebasing nor merging should cause trauma if everyone on the team takes a day or two to understand git
I consider myself above average in terms of Git know how. But I've come across situations using rebase where you're stuck resolving the same conflicts over several commits.
I still don't understand that part quite well.
This doesn't happen when you do a normal merge though. Making it easier to manage
The reason for this is that git rebase is kind of like executing a separate merge for every commit that is being reapplied. A proper merge on the other hand looks at the tips of the two branches and thus considers all the commits/changes "at once."
You can improve the situation with git rerere
Holy shit! I never took the time to read about it rerere. But it all makes sense now.
However, it's still a lot of extra steps for what could otherwise be really simple with a regular merge.
Is there really a big advantage in using rebase vs merge other than trying to keep a single line of progress in the history? It's it really worth all the hassle? Especially if you're using a squash merge in a pull request...
I don't think
rerereapplies here. Once you do a rebase, the rewritten commits should contain the conflict resolutions. The only way conflicts could reoccur on subsequent rebases is if changes reoccur in those same files/lines.