git merge issues

[andi.platschek@gmail.com (Andreas Platschek)]

http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Basic-Branching-and-Merging#Basic-Merge-Conflicts

andi

On 06/12/2014 07:16 AM, Raghavendra wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Assume that i have two branches in my repository: master and devel.
>
> -- I've updated the master branch from the remote repository (using git 
> pull).
>     Assume that the file name 'file.txt' has gone through an update.
>
> -- Now the same file has also gone through a modification in the devel 
> branch (manual editing)
>
> -- Now when I do a 'git merge master' from my devel branch, I am facing 
> a conflict issue something like this :
>
> Auto-merging file.txt
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in file.txt
> Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
>
> Now my question is that do I need to solve the merging issue manually or 
> is there any way to solve this using git?
>
> Thank you.
> Raghavendra
>
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