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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cherry picking instead of merges.
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:13:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080703201354.GA3546@steel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080703182650.GA11166@old.davidb.org>

David Brown, Thu, Jul 03, 2008 20:26:50 +0200:
> Yesterday, one developer cherry picked company B's changes into a branch.
> It appears he resolved the conflicts for each commit, which should make
> bisecting easier.
>
> The problem is that we now have very divergent history.

...and have absolutely no idea on what were the changes of the company
B were made.

> Any advice on how to make use of how he resolved conflicts in order to
> merge company B's changes in using git-merge. ...

Let that developer do the merge next time? Or let the B do a merge
with a commonly accepted base?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-03 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-03 18:26 Cherry picking instead of merges David Brown
2008-07-03 20:13 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-07-03 20:15 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-07-03 20:53   ` David Brown
2008-07-03 21:18     ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-07-03 21:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-03 22:39   ` David Brown
2008-07-04  0:10     ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-07-04  4:40       ` David Brown
2008-07-04  5:30         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-04  6:36           ` Johannes Sixt
2008-07-04 16:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-04  0:39     ` Linus Torvalds

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