Recently I’ve experienced a significant increase in merge conflicts at the company I’m currently working at (we hired a couple of junior data scientists and some are not that familiar with git)
Even though those merge conflicts can be a little tedious to resolve, I realized that I personally started to enjoy it - especially using fugitive. Haven’t had many conflicts in a while, so almost forgot about Gdiffsplit and how awesome that plugin is…
Now I’m wondering, how often do you have to resolve (more or less complex) merge conflicts?
Fairly often.
I tend to fork open-source stuff when I want to make my own adjustments, often the adjustments I make are not wanted upstream. So I’m doomed to having merge conflicts for all eternity.
Often what happens though is that I fix some bug, and then a few months later the upstream fixes it in some other way - so the conflict resolution is to basically just throw away my own (clearly superior but now obsolete*) changes, to avoid more conflicts later on.
(* I’m joking. But it does feel bad to throw away good work.)