Resolving Merge Conflicts in Salesforce

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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