git: trying to merge branches, but there are TONS of conflicts, and most of them /shouldn't/ be conflicts

Question

Here is a lot of what I'm getting:

<<<<<<< HEAD
code
=======
>>>>>>> Merge branch 'master' of code_url into not_master

and there are tons of those occurring multiple times in 40+ files. Is there a different way to merge such that it correctly resolves conflicts on its own? I feel like whenever it encounters any simultaneous difference in a location a file, git decides to flip ALL THE TABLES.

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I looked at rebase, and it MAY have been what I have needed when I started the branch. To start rebasing - I still need to deal with all these conflicts.

Answer 1

I've often seen this when git has record of lines being deleted. It doesn't seem to want to auto-merge if a line has been edited in one branch but deleted in another.

Answer 2

Have you checked whether there are line ending differences? The above may stem from a line ending of \\r in the repo and and \\n in the working directory.