Salesforce teams face code clobbering and loss of metadata due to complex sandbox strategies. Git solves this with backup and merge conflict handling. Blue Canvas offers automatic syncing and 1-click conflict resolution for faster development.
Harry Williams
May 23, 2023
With this article, learn how using Git for Salesforce can solve code clobbering and handle merge conflicts seamlessly. Also discover Blue Canvas in practice: a simple and automatic Git implementation for Salesforce that can help with merge conflict detection and resolution.
Here are 5 Key Takeaways from this blog:
- Git is a great tool for Salesforce developers because it provides a backup of every change and the ability to revert to previous snapshots of your code base.
- Git is designed to handle merge conflicts, which can be a common issue when multiple people are working on multiple features in multiple sandboxes.
- Blue Canvas is a simple and automatic Git implementation for Salesforce that can help with merge conflict detection and resolution.
- With Blue Canvas, every change is automatically committed into Git continuously, ensuring that even quick declarative or UI based changes to Workflows or Fields get added into the Git repo.
- Automatic merge conflict detection allows Salesforce developers to move much faster and focus on building great tools instead of managing spreadsheets. Learn more about Merge Conflict Resolution functionality.
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