Gearset’s unique merge algorithm understands Salesforce metadata, so unlike Git, it can differentiate between genuine conflicts and unnecessary conflicts. For example, sometimes conflicting changes within the same XML tag lead to the same behaviour in a Salesforce org. Your VCS will still consider it a conflict, whereas Gearset knows this doesn’t represent a genuine issue, so will automatically resolve the conflict. Merge conflicts happen less often in Gearset, and when they do occur, they indicate genuine issues.