Merging Concurrent Branches

When several branches are open against the same repo at once, the conflicts do not land in the code you were thinking about. They land in a small, predictable set of hotspot files that nearly every change has to touch — a registry manifest, a version field, shared tool config, one aggregated test module, a tracked build output.

Each hotspot has exactly one correct resolution, and they are not the same rule. "Take ours" / "take theirs" is right for almost none of them. Worse, getting one wrong is silent: the dropped entry, the collided version, the stale bundle all merge green and are found later by someone who cannot reproduce them.

Find the hotspots before you need to resolve them

Files touched by nearly every commit are the files your branch will conflict on.