When Bitbucket recognizes that you would have a conflict if you merged your PR branch it displays a UI like:
Merge conflict
This pull request has conflicts.
You must resolve the conflicts by manually merging parent-branch into this branch. After the conflicts are resolved you will be able to merge the pull request.
Step 1: Checkout the source branch and merge in the changes from the target branch. Resolve conflicts.
git checkout pr-branch
git pull origin parent-branch
This is most likely not what you want to do if you have pull.rebase=true configured which we do by default. We would need to add --no-rebase to the git pull command to make it work like we wanted.
Is there a way to customize this UI so we could add --no-rebase? Actually we would rather have it read:
git checkout pr-branch
git fetch origin
git merge --no-ff parent-branch
