February 10, 2026
Git Best Practices: Avoiding Merge Conflicts in Small Teams
Stop deleting your repositories to resolve bad git commands. Here is exactly how to manage branches safely.
3. Frequent Rebasing: While working on your feature branch, continuously run
git pull --rebase origin main. This rewrites your local commits sequentially on top of whatever your team just merged, allowing you to solve tiny 1-line conflicts locally over time instead of massive 400-line conflicts all at once during your PR review.