title: How do I fix a Corrupted csproj file?
body: <p>I'm in a group working on a project, and was about to Rebase my branch with the new updates from master-branch using git. When rebase started, it suddenly breaks down and gives me this error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>The project file could not be loaded. Name cannot 
  begin with the '&lt;' character, hexadecimal value 0x3C.
  Line 173, position 2.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The "csproj" file seems to be corrupted. How can i fix this? The problem looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  &lt;ItemGroup&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="App_Start\BundleConfig.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="App_Start\FilterConfig.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="App_Start\IdentityConfig.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="App_Start\RouteConfig.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="App_Start\Startup.Auth.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="App_Start\WebApiConfig.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\AccountController.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\CategoryController.cs" /&gt;
  &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; HEAD
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\GalleryController.cs" /&gt;
  =======
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\CheckoutController.cs" /&gt;
  &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Checkout Works. something wrong with Authorization. No need be logged
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\HomeController.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\ManageController.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\PhotoController.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\ShoppingCartController.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\StoreController.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="Controllers\StoreManagerController.cs" /&gt;
      &lt;Compile Include="Global.asax.cs"&gt;
        &lt;DependentUpon&gt;Global.asax&lt;/DependentUpon&gt;
      &lt;/Compile&gt;
  </code></pre>