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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Commiting changes onto more than one branch
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:56:31 +0100
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> (The temporary branch is only needed at all so that the developer has
> some way to refer to the fix while merging it, and the name only
> matters in that humans will see it in the merge commit message.)

If you merge by commit-ish the branch name does not even appear in the
commit message.

Andreas.

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