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From: "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: "Peter Karlsson" <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merge *to* branch instead of merge *from* branch?
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:17:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b130804261617y1fb2a8d9jf8fc6f58ca07b44f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0804270037220.1149@perkele.intern.softwolves.pp.se>

On 4/26/08, Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
>  Is there any way of not having to do the "git checkout master" first?
> Basically I want a flag to merge or checkout saying that I want to merge my
> branch into the branch I'm switching to. I can't seem to find any such flag.

How about this?

git merge master
git branch -D master
git branch master HEAD

In other words, just make a copy of your current branch after merging
and call it the new 'master'.  That's all fast forwarding would do
anyhow.

Have fun,

Avery

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-26 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-26 22:42 Merge *to* branch instead of merge *from* branch? Peter Karlsson
2008-04-26 23:17 ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2008-04-27  2:19 ` Kelvie Wong

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