Branching & Merging — Roadmap Step & Resources
Creating branches, merging, rebasing basics and resolving simple conflicts
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: MERN Stack
Before this step
Interview questions
- Merge vs rebase — when to use which?
Study resources
- Git Branching and Merging Tutorial (Article) — Atlassian's well-regarded, diagram-heavy guide to how branching and merging actually work.
- Git Branching Explained (Video) — A visual explanation of how Git branches and merges actually work under the hood.
- Pro Git Book: Basic Branching and Merging (Article) — The official Pro Git chapter detailing branch mechanics, 3-way merges, and conflict resolution.
- Learn Git Branching Interactive (Article) — The standard interactive visual sandbox for learning Git commits, rebasing, and merges visually.
Part of
- Developer Tools & Version Control — section
- MERN Stack roadmap — the full learning path