Auto-merging package-lock.json

Question

git merge --no-ff account-creation 

Auto-merging package-lock.json CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in package-lock.json Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

Any idea regarding this issue ?

Answer 1

As per the docs:

Resolving lockfile conflicts

Occasionally, two separate npm install will create package locks that cause merge conflicts in source control systems. As of [email protected], these conflicts can be resolved by manually fixing any package.json conflicts, and then running npm install [--package-lock-only] again. npm will automatically resolve any conflicts for you and write a merged package lock that includes all the dependencies from both branches in a reasonable tree. If --package-lock-only is provided, it will do this without also modifying your local node_modules/.

To make this process seamless on git, consider installing npm-merge-driver, which will teach git how to do this itself without any user interaction. In short: $ npx npm-merge-driver install -g will let you do this, and even works with pre-[email protected] versions of npm 5, albeit a bit more noisily. Note that if package.json itself conflicts, you will have to resolve that by hand and run npm install manually, even with the merge driver.