git.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
To: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maintaining two branches.
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:02:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080603180213.GA5541@leksak.fem-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080603163431.GA1244@old.davidb.org>

Hi,

> I've tried creating a 'next' branch where I merge each change from local
> and/or external, and this seems to work, but the history gets very
> cluttered with merge commits.

You could cherry-pick commits from local and/or external instead of
merging. See git-cherry-pick(1).

Regards,
  Stephan

-- 
Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-03 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-03 16:34 Maintaining two branches David Brown
2008-06-03 18:02 ` Stephan Beyer [this message]
2008-06-03 18:13   ` David Brown
2008-06-03 18:08 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-06-03 18:17   ` David Brown
2008-06-03 18:41     ` Dirk Süsserott
2008-06-03 19:09 ` Junio C Hamano

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20080603180213.GA5541@leksak.fem-net \
    --to=s-beyer@gmx.net \
    --cc=git@davidb.org \
    --cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).