Kelly F. Hickel, 05.06.2009: > Other than using manually format-patch on every branch in new, > then applying the patches (presumably with regular old patch, since the > ancestor commit IDs won't match), is there any "good" way to merge "new" > into "old"? If rebasing 'new' on top of 'old' isn't an option, then you could try: $ git checkout new $ git merge -s ours old It's the other way round (not merging 'new' into 'old', but vice versa), but there is now merge strategy "theirs". Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html