Solution to “Commit your changes or stash them before you can merge” in Git

You can't merge with local modifications. Git protects you from losing important changes. You have three options. One is to commit the change using

git commit -m "My message"

The second is to stash it. stashing acts as a stack, where you can push changes, and you pop them in reverse order.

To stash type:

git stash

Do the merge, and than pull the stash:

git stash pop

The third options is to discard the local changes using git reset --hard.