Git branching strategy: During git rebase: couple file keeps conflicting

Question

Branching main Branch called MASTER Created a Feature branch called FEATURE_BRANCH from MASTER Created a sub feature branch called SUB_FEATURE_1

FEATURE_BRANCH the parent from which main sun features are created. This branch has to be rebased from MASTER and some features are done.

$ git checkout  FEATURE_BRANCH
$ git rebase master
$ git push origin FEATURE_BRANCH
$ git checkout SUB_FEATURE_1
$ git push origin FEATURE_BRANCH
$ git checkout  FEATURE_BRANCH
$ git commit --amend
$ git push origin FEATURE_BRANCH
$ git checkout SUB_FEATURE_1
$ git rebase FEATURE_BRANCH

On rebasing the sub feature branch there were merge conflicts for file x.txt. So corrected the file git add it and git rebase --continue .

But immediatly, the same file had merge conflicts. I fixed the file again and this time correct it all over again

The same file has the exact same merge conflicts. How is this happening?

IS the branching stategy right ? Why is the file having conflicts again ?

Answer 1

First, activate git rerere (as explained here) in order to not have to repeat the conflict resolution you are doing.

But second, and more importantly, do use git rebase --rebase-merges (Git 2.18+)

That way, you won't have to rebase sub_feature_1 branch: only one rebase (of feature_1) will be enough.

git checkout  FEATURE_BRANCH
git rebase --rebase-merges master