These lines just appeared in my code:
<<<<<<<HEAD
followed by ~20 normal lines
=======
followed by ~15 normal lines
>>>>>>> 6cba... 40 characters of hexadecimal. So a hash of something? Why would that be here?
These 3 lines were 100% not in my code the last time I saved it, and I'm the only one working on it. Does anyone know what I'm looking at?
I'm using github, but these 3 lines don't show up in the version I committed yesterday. Writing in IDLE, python 3.11.4 on a Windows 11 machine.
I am not sure how you got this merge conflict marker, but these 9 lines
indicate that version 'HEAD' has the indicated 3 lines (2 blank) with '20' while version '6cba...' (a hex digest of a commit) has the nearly identical 3 lines but with '15' instead of '20'. In any case, you must remove the 3 conflict marker lines beginning with '<...', '=...', and '>...' and one set of content lines, so you end up with just 3 lines of content.
You may have to somehow indicate that you have resolved the conflict by clicking a button in a git IDE window or write a git command in the command-line terminal. (Neither is done in the editor itself.)