Visual Studio Code

The Visual Studio Code editor enables you to remove merge conflicts similar to the GitHub.com UI.

To see the Visual Studio Code merge conflict tool in action, perform the following:

If you already completed all of the exercises in this course, you can re-import the course repository and give it a different name.

1. Clone the repository locally.
2. Checkout to the username-config branch.

3. In the terminal, open Visual Studio Code using the code . command.

   Depending on your operating system, you may need to configure this behavior.

4. Edit the _config.yml file, making changes to lines 12-19 and save the file.
5. Create a commit based on those changes.
6. Checkout the master branch.

7. Enter git merge username-config while on the master branch. You will encounter a merge conflict.

   If there are multiple files within the merge, you can type git status to see which file (or files!) is causing the conflict.

8. Open the _config.yml file with Visual Studio Code.
9. Remove the merge conflict markers and the content you do not want to keep.
10. Enter git add _config.yml followed by git commit -m "Add my config changes" and enter enter.
11. Congratulations, you resolved a merge conflict locally with the Visual Studio Code editor!