Re: Managing multiple branches in git

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Managing multiple branches in git
Date: 2009-06-02 16:42:02
Message-ID: 4A25565A.3090408@anarazel.de
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On 06/02/2009 06:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> At the same time, I don't really buy the theory that relating commits on
> different branches via merges will work. In my experience it is very
> seldom the case that a patch applies to each back branch with no manual
> effort whatever, which is what I gather the merge functionality could
> help with. So maybe there's not much help to be had on this ...
You can do a merge and change the commit during that - this way you get
the merge tracking information correct although you did a merge so that
further merge operations can consider the specific change to be applied
on both/some/all branches.
This will happen by default if there is a merge conflict or can be
forced by using the --no-commit option to merge.

Andres

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