The 3 Ways To Merge Pull Requests In Git

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Create Merge Commit

VS Code offers are 3 ways (when using GitHub as the version control system) to merge a Pull Request (PR), namely:

Create Merge CommitSquash and MergeRebase and Merge

This article will explore how these methods differ.

Let’s start with a main branch that looks like this:

Figure 1: The current state of the main branch

Now, we create a new branch called feature/something-cool and make a few commits to implement a “cool feature”:

Figure 2: Branching off main to create a new feature

At this point, we are ready to make a PR to get our work in the feature/something-cool branch merged into main .

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