From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: Howard Miller <howard@e-learndesign.co.uk>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Merge priority
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:22:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90911260822x3cf5fcd1ka7e503764cae699c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26ae428a0911260444j45437a92r47d7f2e8b292829e@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Howard Miller
<howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:
> I now want to update all my customer branches with the latest fixes
> and patches. Naively, I would just check out each branch and merge the
> stable branch - job done.
Yep, that's what I'd do.
> However, is it sensible to ask if there is a
> way to say that the stable branch is more important if there are
> conflicts.
Not really. The git approach is to assume that... when there is a
conflict, you must look into it. A human needs to take a decision...
> Or should I be using rebase instead (which I still don't
> really understand). I'm trying to reduce my workload as there are
> loads of branches to do.
No, rebase will increase the load and complexity.
cheers,
m
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-26 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-26 12:44 Merge priority Howard Miller
2009-11-26 15:42 ` Alex Riesen
2009-11-26 19:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-26 16:22 ` Martin Langhoff [this message]
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