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This is the example of how hard it can be for companies, especially successful companies, to alter their course even slightly. Github success was about making code repositories pretty and social. But this is no longer enough to keep evolving as a company of their size. Yet the internal product DNA still revolves around repos, so as a result, issues, wikis and now Projects (!) live under a single repository. This is b…

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Thank you! Can I make one more request? I'd love to be able to see merge conflicts from the diff page (also like BB does). Knowing the conflict is just db/schema version instead of something more problematic-- that is especially handy when used in conjunction with various target branches. i.e. I know branch is about to be merged before right before gets merged. Then, I can know what I'm going to have to fix quickly w…

Certainly - thanks for that! I've included it here. We're aiming to monitor this board as much as possible, but if there other feature asks that come up, feel free to connect with our Support team - they're also available to take your feature asks and report them to our Engineering team.

A couple days ago I noticed that the status box on the PR page now includes a list of conflicted files. Not sure if that was in any way related to my request here, but wanted to thank you if it was. That is very helpful.
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