From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Managing multiple branches in git |
Date: | 2009-06-02 17:37:01 |
Message-ID: | 4A25633D.504@enterprisedb.com |
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Andres Freund wrote:
> On 06/02/2009 06:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> At the same time, I don't really buy the theory that relating commits on
>> different branches via merges will work. In my experience it is very
>> seldom the case that a patch applies to each back branch with no manual
>> effort whatever, which is what I gather the merge functionality could
>> help with. So maybe there's not much help to be had on this ...
> You can do a merge and change the commit during that - this way you get
> the merge tracking information correct although you did a merge so that
> further merge operations can consider the specific change to be applied
> on both/some/all branches.
> This will happen by default if there is a merge conflict or can be
> forced by using the --no-commit option to merge.
Yeah, that should work fine.
However, handling fixes to multiple branches by merging the release
branches to master seems awkward to me. A merge will merge *all* commits
in the release branch. Including "stamp 8.3.1" commits, and fixes for
issues in release branches that are not present in master.
Cherry-picking seems like the best approach.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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