From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aneesh Bhasin Subject: Adding a new file to all git branches Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:11:15 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 24 04:43:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LlxXb-000564-St for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:43:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752860AbZCXDld (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:41:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752727AbZCXDld (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:41:33 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.232]:25111 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751731AbZCXDlc (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:41:32 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so2083096rvb.1 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:41:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:received:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Og5ogWyV8GtWlH/sI5aUsOP1blqo+M+YIswShdVFb84=; b=IAlKqhnp/Rbn1K1+EpQQIzJV8imTPv2D9+PL7BwpSQDIjad47IC144wi2W7HJY/eor c6sLWg6ubk+O6Jm5BczBXi6sjBTaTaYULCTnrTHDMuuQHL/FV6QnWkmfG2j4kXbz6rFC bn3xN8kHG2LAU0/On3Iy8orSHn4OHHmKeEsI8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Prm2l1ytGHYXObyFQ56u0C2CRXyUS6r6CmlP7DIZuP77l/ug7fsUnS/be6133HJu8z X0rPoR5AphTeFjUzdwIp1rcWyNz4bE+e0oYqodkKrL/3I+BULtVnFtYLc+B4nW0CgTDJ x1Uhee+GHi83iE4a5a6cLlPM5NGnwwS6FbyRY= Received: by 10.141.96.19 with SMTP id y19mr2675285rvl.201.1237866091062; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to add a file to all the branches in a repository without individually checking out each branch ? A possible use-case for such a scenario is say I have a git repository with various branches related to different features, versions or bug-fixes and I want to be able to add a README file which contains instructions/information common to all of those branches as of now (but may diverge in future). So, do I have to checkout each branch individually to add the same README file to all of them or is there a direct/indirect workaround ? Thanks for your help.. Regards, Aneesh