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From: Brent Goodrick <bgoodr@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to exclude user-specified files or directories  from participating in merges?
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:39:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e38bce640902172139h6ddda8e8va089e514e625de52@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vfxic1p6m.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Compared to that, the two simple rules "commit changes to generic things
> only to the generic branch" and "merge only from generic to specific" will
> not grow as your project grows in complexity.

I now I see the wisdom of the above statement.  You've given me a lot
of approaches to think about and try. Thanks for your help!

bg

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-18  5:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-18  0:49 Is there a way to exclude user-specified files or directories from participating in merges? Brent Goodrick
2009-02-18  1:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-18  1:32   ` Brent Goodrick
2009-02-18  1:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-18  5:39       ` Brent Goodrick [this message]
2009-02-18  1:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-18 13:33   ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-02-18 19:02     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-19 13:37       ` Sitaram Chamarty

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