Best Practices

How to Solve Merge Conflicts in Salesforce

Unlock solutions to Salesforce merge conflicts and code clobbering. Learn the root causes, practical examples, and effective ways to prevent these problems.

In this article, we'll demystify the common issues of merge conflicts and code clobbering that Salesforce teams often face, even when using Git. We'll explore the root causes, practical examples, and effective solutions to these problems, including a unique approach known as 'cherry picking' lines of metadata and code.

Here are our 5 key takeaways:

  • "Code clobbering" and "merge conflicts" are major challenges for Salesforce teams, which occur when different developers' changes to the same code conflict.
  • Source-driven development solutions, like Salesforce DX, aim to help manage merge conflicts, but they often fall short due to inherent issues with Salesforce's structure.
  • Git’s traditional merge conflict algorithm has difficulty handling Salesforce, leading to problems with merge conflict detection and resolution.
  • Cherry-picking specific lines of code based on the diff has emerged as an effective solution for avoiding code clobbering and merge conflicts in Salesforce.
  • Establishing an Integration environment where every developer is responsible for merging their changes is another effective approach to manage merge conflicts and code clobbering in Salesforce.
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