DevOps Center Conflict & Deploy-Failure Resolution

Diagnoses and resolves what blocks a DevOps Center promotion of a work item's feature branch. DevOps Center is Git-backed: each work item is a feature branch and each pipeline stage has a target branch. A promotion can fail two ways — a Git merge conflict (two work items changed the same metadata) or a deployment failure (the deploy itself errors, often on a missing dependency). There is no sf devops conflict CLI command; both cases are diagnosed and resolved with standard git against the connected repository. This skill runs in a local clone of that repo.

Scope

• In scope: (a) Detect merge conflicts between a work item's feature branch and the target stage branch (non-destructively), resolve conflicted files (choose a side or manually merge conflict markers), commit, and push the feature branch DevOps Center tracks; (b) Diagnose a promotion deploy failure — classify it as a merge conflict vs. a deploy error, parse a missing dependency, and determine whether a full promotion can fix it (the component exists on the feature branch) or the component must be added first
• Out of scope: Running the promotion, full promotion, or combine (use dx-devops-promote), creating/updating work items or their status (use dx-devops-work-item-manage), deploying metadata directly to an org, pipeline or project setup (separate skills)

Required Inputs

Gather or infer before proceeding: