In collaborative software development, developers simultaneously work in parallel on
different branches that they merge periodically. When edits from different branches textually …

Context: in software engineering, developers working concurrently on a project frequently
need to merge changes in the source code. The manual resolution of merge conflicts is a …

Merge conflicts occur when developers make concurrent changes to the same part of the
code. They are an inevitable and disruptive aspect of collaborative software development …

Developers regularly have to resolve merge conflicts, ie, two conflicting sets of changes to
the same files in different branches, which can be tedious and error-prone. To resolve …

While the creation of new branches and forks is easy and fast with modern version-control
systems, merging is often time-consuming. Especially when dealing with many branches or …

Merge conflicts are inevitable in collaborative software development and are disruptive.
When they occur, developers have to stop their current work, understand the conflict and the …

Concurrent contributions to a code base may introduce merge conflicts. Whereas merge
conflicts are easy and common to introduce, resolving them is a difficult, time-consuming …

In collaborative software development, merge conflicts arise when developers integrate
concurrent code changes. Practitioners seek to minimize the number of merge conflicts …

Collaborative development is critical to improve the productivity. Multiple contributors work
simultaneously on the same project and might make changes to the same code locations …

Conflicts among developers' inconsistent copies of a shared project arise in collaborative
development and can slow progress and decrease quality. Identifying and resolving such …