Pull Request Merge Conflict Extension

Resolve pull request merge conflicts on the web

Before a Git pull request can complete, any conflicts with the target branch must be resolved. With this extension, you can resolve these conflicts on the web, as part of the pull request merge, instead of performing the merge and resolving conflicts in a local clone.

Quick steps to get started

After installing the extension, select the Conflicts tab from within a pull request.

👁 Conflicts Tab

Look through the list of files with conflicts and select a file to resolve

👁 Explorer

Select a resolution type for that file

👁 Example resolution

Navigate to the conflicted section

👁 Next conflict button

Edit the file to manually merge

👁 Conflict markers

Submit the merged file

👁 Submit

Review changes

👁 Review

Notable Features

• Edit files with Monaco, the editor that powers VS Code
• Filter conflicts by path, name, file type, resolution state, and more
• Compare common image formats visually
• Resolve UTF-16 and several other encodings not supported by git.exe

Known Issues

• Large files can have poor performance. Files over 8 MB may not be resolved by merging, only by taking the entire source or target file
• Only files that have detected conflicts can be edited
• Directory/File conflicts are not supported
• Updates to conflicted files are not shown in the "Files" tab
• May not work on older versions of TFS 2017

Prerequisites

• Team Services
• A project with Git version control

Contributors

We thank the following contributor(s) for this extension: Larry Hu, Tyrie Vella, William Au Yeung, Binyao Jiang, Saravana Kumar Ramachandran, Matthaeus Wolff

Feedback

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• Add a review below
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