Re: Merging to and from non-current branches.

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On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 04:48, lists@xxxxxxxxx<lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I appreciate your post.  I understand what you're saying, and I'm not so
> much concerned about the logistics of what need to occur so much as a single
> command to intuitively handle it.  I've been doing a great deal of
> incremental development lately and it becomes rather tedious to have to
> checkout master, merge dev, re-checkout dev and proceed.  I'm not sure why
> this isn't currently possible with a single command.

Because no one needed this sequence of commands for long enough.

> I suppose I could write a shell script to do so, but that's a little less "native"
> than I'd like.

But that's absolutely native to Git. Many Git commands are just shell scripts!
Many guarantee (the "plumbing") you stability and machine-readability of
their output precisely for this reason.

Write your script, propose it here, and there will be enough interest it'll land
in the official distribution (or, more likely, in the "contrib"
directory of it).
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