--- title: Resolving Merge Conflicts with Visual Studio Code description: Visual Studio Code offers two ways to resolve merge conflicts: the classic inline editor and the newer three-way merge editor introduced in v1.69. The inline... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/resolving-merge-conflicts-with-visual-studio-code-z19689jnh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Resolving Merge Conflicts with Visual Studio Code | daily.dev og:description: Visual Studio Code offers two ways to resolve merge conflicts: the classic inline editor and the newer three-way merge editor introduced in v1.69. The inline... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/resolving-merge-conflicts-with-visual-studio-code-z19689jnh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Z19689Jnh.png og:image:alt: Resolving Merge Conflicts with Visual Studio Code og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Resolving Merge Conflicts with Visual Studio Code **[Playful Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/playfulprogramming)** · [@balastrong](https://daily.dev/balastrong) · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Visual Studio Code offers two ways to resolve merge conflicts: the classic inline editor and the newer three-way merge editor introduced in v1.69. The inline editor remains popular for its simplicity, while the three-way editor adds a more structured view. You can switch between them via the `git.mergeEditor` setting. Handling conflicts directly in the IDE is convenient because formatting and recompiling tools are immediately available without switching windows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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