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From: Lane Brooks <lane@brooks.nu>
To: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: How to manage merges from one line while excluding its merges from another
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:26:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C252D1C.4010702@brooks.nu> (raw)

I have a tree like this:

      G---H---I---J---K   devel
     /       /       /
A---B---C---D---E---F    main
         \
          L---M---N---O   my


The 'my' branch forked off the 'main' line and for reasons out of my 
control cannot merge the 'main' changes (D,E,F) back.

The 'devel' line is a another line that I need to track and merge from, 
but I only want the changes local to that branch that are not on from 
the mainline. i.e., I only want commits G,H,J.

I want to continue to merge from the devel line as additional commits
are made that are not on the main branch, but I do not want any of the 
future merge commits.

Is there an automated way to do this or do I have to cherry pick 
everything by hand?

Thanks,
Lane

             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-25 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-25 22:26 Lane Brooks [this message]
2010-06-26  0:03 ` How to manage merges from one line while excluding its merges from another Jonathan Nieder
2010-06-26  0:35   ` Lane Brooks
2010-06-26  0:51     ` Jonathan Nieder

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