Re: [git-users] Re: Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-02-09 Thread Stephen Morton
On Thursday, 9 February 2017 17:31:38 UTC-5, Philip Oakley wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > There is another approach to merging, that is the 'imerge' tool [1], which > does consider every commit on both sides of the merge. > > It was developed for the cases where the two branches have diverged in

[git-users] Strategies for adding same changes added to master to a release branch

2017-02-09 Thread David Karr
I just successfully merged a pull request branch to our master branch, but our release branch, which was branched from master a couple of weeks ago (bad sign already) also needs those changes. The changes were small, so I could easily do all this manually, but what are some reasonable technique

Re: [git-users] Re: Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-02-09 Thread Philip Oakley
Hi Stephen, There is another approach to merging, that is the 'imerge' tool [1], which does consider every commit on both sides of the merge. It was developed for the cases where the two branches have diverged in many places. The 'i' in 'imerge' is a reference to it creating an incremental i

Re: [git-users] Re: Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-02-09 Thread Igor Djordjevic
On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 5:58:56 PM UTC+1, Stephen Morton wrote: > > Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Stephen Morton > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Igor Djordjevic > > wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 3:47:09 PM UTC+1, Stephen Morton wrote: On Thu, Fe

Re: [git-users] Re: Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-02-09 Thread Stephen Morton
Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Stephen Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Igor Djordjevic < > igor.d.djordje...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 3:47:09 PM UTC+1, Stephen Morton wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Igor Djordjevic >>> wrote: >>>

Re: [git-users] Re: Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-02-09 Thread Stephen Morton
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Igor Djordjevic < igor.d.djordje...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 3:47:09 PM UTC+1, Stephen Morton wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Igor Djordjevic >> wrote: >> >>> For example, single (resolved) merge commit (M): >>> >>> 1) A---

Re: [git-users] Re: Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-02-09 Thread Igor Djordjevic
On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 3:47:09 PM UTC+1, Stephen Morton wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Igor Djordjevic > wrote: > >> For example, single (resolved) merge commit (M): >> >> 1) A---B---C---D branchA >> \ \ >> V---W---*M*---E branchB >> >> ... and conflicting merg

Re: [git-users] Re: Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-02-09 Thread Stephen Morton
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Igor Djordjevic wrote: > On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 2:31:33 AM UTC+1, Stephen Morton wrote: >> >> ... (My time is better spent perhaps helping answer other people's >> questions on stackoverflow than helping somebody who, in a somewhat snarky >> tone, asks me

[git-users] Re: Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-02-09 Thread Igor Djordjevic
On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 2:31:33 AM UTC+1, Stephen Morton wrote: > > ... (My time is better spent perhaps helping answer other people's > questions on stackoverflow than helping somebody who, in a somewhat snarky > tone, asks me to explain my own question back to them.) > Please excuse m

Re: [git-users] Re: Git branching and merge strategy for merge with lots of conflicts requiring multiple people

2017-02-09 Thread Magnus Therning
Stephen Morton writes: > - So, the question is: what is the best git-like way to a) record the > merge in a proper way that will allow any subsequent merges to occur > properly (most important) and additionally b) record the intermediate > conflict fixing if possible. You are aware of `rerere`

Re: [git-users] Git and Subversion

2017-02-09 Thread Magnus Therning
Cecil Westerhof writes: > I had a talk yesterday with a company where they are using Subversion. > The reason is that all there suppliers use Subversion. I understood it > should be quit easy to communicate from Git with Subversion > repositories. Is that true? Does anyone has any experiences to

Re: [git-users] regarding branch

2017-02-09 Thread Magnus Therning
Sharan Basappa writes: > I have created a local branch, added few files and pushed them onto remote. > When > I pushed my changes for the first time, I used: > > #git push origin test1 - where test1 is the name of my branch > > Hereafter, I have made additional changes and just doing #git push.