Ace Git Branching & Merging: Rapid-Fire Interview Drills | MockRounds

Interviewers care how you branch, merge, and resolve conflicts without breaking delivery.

In this short session, you’ll tackle rapid-fire questions on branching strategies, merge vs rebase, and conflict handling. Answers are revealed immediately, with brief tips to reinforce patterns you can apply on the job.

Quiz link: https://mockrounds.com/tools_ecosyste...

Keep work isolated on feature branches; protect main. Rebase your branch onto main before opening a PR to minimize conflicts and flaky CI.
Use merge vs rebase intentionally: rebase for local cleanup and linear history; merge to preserve public history. Don’t rebase branches others may have pulled.
Resolve conflicts methodically: inspect markers, decide per hunk, run tests, stage resolved files, then continue. For tricky cases, compare both sides or redo the smallest change set.
Choose merge styles deliberately: fast-forward keeps history linear; --no-ff preserves a feature boundary; squash merge condenses noisy commits—write a clear, searchable message.
Stabilize releases with release/hotfix branches and tags. Cherry-pick only when necessary and always reference the original commit/issue for traceability.

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