Re: Why does git merge have so much trouble with Fedora package branches?

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On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 11:43 +0100, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 10:52 +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 10.11.2011, 10:36 +0100 schrieb Vratislav Podzimek:
> > > Isn't it better to use 'git rebase'? E.g. on master use 'git rebase
> > > f16'. As I understand it, it would do the same as cherry-picking commit
> > > after commit in these cases.
> > 
> > Someone might correct me, but rebasing introduces problems for
> > co-maintainers, if upstream (maintainer) decides to rebase some branch.
> > 
> > See http://man.he.net/man1/git-rebase
> Yes, but I don't see any problem in a situation like this:
> 
> A--B--C        *master
> A--B--C--D--E  *f16
> 
> I would expect the result to look like:
> A--B--C--D--E  *master
> A--B--C--D--E  *f16

Yes, in case of such a fast-forward then rebasing gives the same result
as merging.

Which means it would not be the same as cherry-picking (as you were
saying previously).


-- 
Mathieu


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