How often have you encountered conflicts when merging branches and how did you usually resolve them?

Merge conflicts occur when changes in different branches affect the same parts of the code.

The frequency of conflicts depends on the team size and the nature of the work. They are usually resolved as follows:

• Carefully examine the conflicting code sections.
• Decide which changes to keep and which to discard.
• Manually edit the files to resolve conflicts.
• Test the results to ensure functionality is not broken.

To reduce conflicts, it is helpful to frequently synchronize branches and use small, logically related commits.