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Deploying from #Git branches adds flexibility. Bring your feature branch up to date with master and deploy it to make sure everything works. If everything looks good the branch can be merged. Otherwise, you can deploy your master branch to return production to its stable state.

Updating a feature branch

First we'll update your local master branch. Go to your local project and check out the branch you want to merge into (your local master branch)

$ git checkout master

Fetch the remote, bringing the branches and their commits from the remote repository. You can use the -p, --prune option to delete any remote-tracking references that no longer exist in the remote. Commits to master will be stored in a local branch, remotes/origin/master.

$ git fetch -p origin

Merge the changes from origin/master into your local master branch. This brings your master branch in sync with the remote repository, without losing your local changes. If your local branch didn't have any unique commits, Git will instead perform a "fast-forward".

$ git merge origin/master

Check out the branch you want to merge into

$ git checkout <feature-branch>

Merge your (now updated) master branch into your feature branch to update it with the latest changes from your team.

$ git merge master

Depending on your git configuration this may open vim. Enter a commit message, save, and quit vim:

  1. Press a to enter insert mode and append text following the current cursor position.
  2. Press the esc key to enter command mode.
  3. Type :wq to write the file to disk and quit.

This only updates your local feature branch. To update it on GitHub, push your changes.

$ git push origin <feature-branch>
@LokiMutua
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Very helpful thank you

@wptechprodigy
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Helpful. Thanks

@zerolaser
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helpful 👍

@learnbenlearn
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Very helpful, thank you

@deepika0024-tech
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deepika0024-tech commented Jan 8, 2020

How this will work if I already have some changes in my branch and wanted to make it up to date with master before pushing my branch in git

@andrewkoung
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@deepika0024-tech I believe you perform the same process as mentioned in the first post, but you might come across some conflicts like msureshb.

@Ironjanowar
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Can you do:

git checkout <feature-branch>
git fetch -p origin
git merge origin/master
git push origin <feature-branch>

If you don't want to update your local master branch?

@ana-moga
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ana-moga commented Mar 4, 2020

Thank you, this helped me a lot today.

@EmKaCe
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EmKaCe commented Apr 2, 2020

Great guide, solved my issue, thanks!

@timsully
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timsully commented Jun 9, 2020

This is amazing, thank you so much!

@smw7156
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smw7156 commented Jun 25, 2020

During "git merge master" step,
I got conflict. I resolved the conflict by editing the files.
After that, How do i restart the merge process?

you need to git add <file> and then commit.
It will create a new merge commit. Completing you merge process

@radhikaRadz
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Really helped me. Thanks a lot.

@frednjoro7
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Thanks !

@toba-madamori
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This helped, thanks!

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