Conflict

Definitions

1. A situation in which two changes, operations, or states are incompatible and cannot be combined automatically without deciding which behavior should win. Conflicts occur in version control, data synchronization, scheduling, and configuration when multiple sources try to control the same thing differently.

   In plain English: A clash where two changes or states cannot be combined automatically.

   Example: "The rebase produced a conflict in the routing file because two branches had both added different assumptions about the new auth middleware order."

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