Keep Your Local and Remote Branches in Sync to Avoid Conflicts

If you and a team member are working together on a visual application, you will be using the same Git repository and might be working off the same branch and editing the same files. This can sometimes result in a code conflict.

To help minimize the number of conflicts, the best practice is to make sure your local branch and the remote branch are in sync and up-to-date. You do this by committing and pushing often. Each time you commit or push changes to the branch, Git will check the remote branch to see if there were any updates since the last time you checked. If there's new content, you'll need to pull the changes to your local branch.

If a code conflict occurs, you'll have to resolve it before you can update the branch with your changes.