Have you ever tried to merge two branches only to end up in conflict hell? You fix a bunch of conflicts only to run git merge --continue and be presented with the same conflicts. Repeat this process and after a few iterations you give up because it just isn't worth the pain and effort.
Would you be surprised to know that there is a git feature specifically for this problem? It's called rerere and I'm going to enrich your life with it now. (I'm going to talk specifically about merging but I think it also helps rebasing)
rerere stands for Reuse Recorded Resolution. The TL;DR version is you ask git to remember how you've resolved hunks in the past, and if the same one comes up for a file in future just redo what you did last time.
To enable this feature just run this lovely command git config --global rerere.enabled true. You can also turn it on by creating this directory in your projects .git/rr-cache, although the global setting is much clearer.
I'll try to take you through an example of how th