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How to fix Git merge conflicts during merge, rebase, cherry-pick, and pull — resolve conflict markers, use merge tools, accept theirs or ours, abort, and prevent future conflicts.
How to fix the 'fatal: not a git repository' error in Git by checking your working directory, initializing a repo, recovering a deleted .git folder, and resolving submodule, CI/CD, and IDE path issues.
How to fix git stash errors: 'CONFLICT' after git stash pop, 'Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten', 'No stash entries found', and 'Could not restore untracked files from stash entry'. Covers stash pop vs apply, conflict resolution, recovering dropped stashes, and stashing untracked files.
How to fix 'SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate', 'CERT_HAS_EXPIRED', 'ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID', and 'self signed certificate in certificate chain' errors in Git, curl, Node.js, Python, Docker, and more. Covers CA certificates, corporate proxies, Let's Encrypt, certificate chains, and self-signed certs.
How to fix Git's 'detached HEAD' state, 'HEAD detached at xxx', 'HEAD detached from xxx', and 'Warning: you are leaving X commits behind'. Covers creating a branch, saving commits, recovering lost work with reflog, and when detached HEAD is intentional.
How to fix Git merge conflicts: 'CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in [file]', 'Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result', 'You have unmerged paths', and 'needs merge'. Covers manual resolution, VS Code, --theirs/--ours, merge --abort, mergetool, rebase conflicts, and prevention.
How to fix the Git error 'fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git' when running git commands. Covers missing .git directory, wrong working directory, submodules, worktrees, and CI/CD environments.
How to fix 'git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey)' and 'fatal: Could not read from remote repository' when pushing or cloning over SSH. Covers key generation, ssh-agent, GitHub/GitLab setup, and edge cases.
How to fix 'error: failed to push some refs' and '! [rejected] main -> main (non-fast-forward)' in Git. Covers pull, rebase, force push, and edge cases.
How to fix the Git error 'fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories' when pulling, merging, or rebasing branches that don't share a common ancestor.