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A Git merge conflict happens when two branches edit the same line of code in different ways. Git can’t decide which version to keep, so it pauses the merge and asks you to step in. The longer a conflict sits unresolved, the harder it becomes to untangle. This guide walks you through eight clear steps to identify, fix, and verify merge conflicts during your branch merging workflow. GitKraken gives you a visual merge tool that turns this process from guesswork into a few confident clicks.

Your team ships more code than ever, but are your pull requests keeping pace? As AI-assisted development accelerates output, code review collaboration platforms have become the difference between shipping confidently and merging blindly. The right platform connects your review workflows, surfaces context where you need it, and keeps collaboration flowing across distributed teams.

Your distributed team just merged three branches at once, and the commit graph looks like a plate of spaghetti. Choosing the right version control platform determines whether that scenario ends in a five-minute fix or a full afternoon of detective work. GitKraken gives you a visual, cross-platform approach to Git that turns complex repository management into a clear, collaborative workflow.

Running one AI coding agent is productive. Running five of them at once across three repositories? That’s a coordination problem. Agentic development environments (ADEs) give you a single surface to orchestrate multiple agents, review what each one changed, and get code merged. Kepler by GitKraken is one of the most capable options in this growing category. It’s built around agent-agnostic orchestration and Git workflow control from backlog to merged PR.

Code review in a Jira-centric workflow can become a bottleneck fast. Pull requests pile up, context gets lost between your Git host and your issue tracker, and reviewers spend time switching tabs instead of reading code. The right code review platform should connect Git activity directly to the issues you’re tracking.

I built GitBench because I was curious about how well models did git things. It turns out that it was a good idea because some models will surprise you. Some of the frontier models were remarkably bad and some cheap open models punched above their weight class. But, as they say, “the times they are a changin’”. Before I go too deep into the latest results, you may want to read up on GitBench and what it is and why I built it in the previous blog post.

Five worktrees for five agents sounds like organization. In practice, it’s five contexts to keep straight, five places history could live, five spots for a WIP that gets left behind or diffed against the wrong branch. GitLens 19.2’s fix isn’t a second graph. It’s making the one graph you already trust point wherever the work actually is.

There is no doubt that LLMs have changed how we work as developers. You can go back just a year from today and I would have had a very different opinion. But, things have changed significantly. Complex work usually involves just prompting an agent for it. You still need taste and opinions to steer it the right way. With that in mind, it’s easy to se that the future of the IDE might be uncertain.

Every new AI coding agent comes with the same pitch: write code faster. For most devs, that part already checks out. Codex writes a function in seconds. Claude Code refactors a file mid-meeting. Copilot fills in a test before you finish describing it. None of that touches the problem that shows up an hour later: five agents running across three repositories, each with its own diff, and no single place to see what’s stuck, what’s done, and what’s actually safe to ship.

Finding the right pull request review tool can mean the difference between a team that ships confidently and one that drowns in open PRs. When review workflows are scattered across tabs, comment threads, and standalone dashboards, code quality and velocity both take a hit. GitKraken gives you a unified code review experience that connects your IDE, desktop client, and browser so reviews happen where you already work.