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To merge a development branch into the current branch, use “git merge dev-branch-name”. If you get conflict warnings about a merge, use “git merge –abort” to back out of it, or edit the affected files and then commit them.<\/p>\n

Git uses branches to isolate development streams, to prevent the stable release branch from becoming polluted. Bringing work in a branch into the main stream means merging branches. Here\u2019s how you do it.<\/p>\n

What Is a Merge in Git?<\/h2>\n

Git was designed to make branching simple and fast. In contrast to other version control systems, branching on Git is a trivial matter. On multi-developer projects especially, branching is one of Git\u2019s core organizational tools.<\/p>\n

Branches sandbox new development efforts so that code can be modified or added without affecting the code in other branches, especially the main or master branch. This usually contains the stable version of your code base.<\/p>\n

Isolating these changes from your stable code version makes perfect sense. But sooner or later the new code will be tested, reviewed, and rubber-stamped to be rolled into the master branch. At that point, you need to merge your branch into the master branch.<\/p>\n

Actually, branches can have sub-branches so you might be merging your branch into some other branch instead of the master branch. Just remember that merges always take one branch and merge it into a\u00a0target<\/em>\u00a0branch, whatever that branch may be. If you want to merge your master branch into another branch, you can even do that too.<\/p>\n

Like most actions in Git, you perform merges in your local repository and push them to your remote repository.<\/p>\n

Preparing to Merge a Branch in Git<\/h2>\n

We\u2019ve got a small development project with a local Git repository and a remote Git repository. We created a branch called \u201cbugfix14\u201d from the \u201cmaster\u201d branch and worked on a solution to a bug.<\/p>\n

That work is completed, and we\u2019ve tested our code. It all works as expected. We want to roll those changes into the master branch so that our fix is part of the next release of the software.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a little preparation to be done before we perform the merge. We need to make sure the target branch\u2014in this case the \u201cmaster\u201d branch\u2014and the branch we\u2019re going to merge into it are both up to date.<\/p>\n

To do this we\u2019ll use the git status<\/code> command.<\/p>\n

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