Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub - Observing Conflicts in the Staging Area and Working Directory

The video tutorial explains how to handle merge conflicts in Git when merging branches. It covers the use of Git commands like git ls-files and git cat-file to explore file versions in the staging area. The tutorial also demonstrates how to manually resolve merge conflicts by comparing different file versions from the master and feature branches. The process involves understanding the significance of numbered file versions and using tools like Visual Studio Code to identify and resolve conflicts.

What is the role of the staging area in Git when dealing with merge conflicts?

How can you identify which lines in a file have conflicts after a merge?

What does it mean when you see three versions of the same file in the output of 'git ls-files'?