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Yes, some devs just can't merge. Even worse, IntelliJ & co have this "magic merge" button, that resolves conflicts automatically, but the results are usually a mess, esp when merging complex features. But because lazy devs are lazy, they just smash that button, commit, push without testing locally and then move on to the next topic. Naturally, we've had countless CICD failures which were attributed to "merging in git is sooo broken" ...

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