Interview Q&A / Git & GitHub

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Git & GitHub interview questions

Branching, merge vs rebase, resolving conflicts and pull requests, the way teams actually work.

  1. What do --ours and --theirs mean when resolving a conflict?

    In a merge, ours is the branch you are on and theirs is the branch being merged in. git checkout --ours file or --theirs file takes that whole version of the file. In a rebase the meaning is reversed.

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