Re: Merge priority

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On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Howard Miller
<howard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I now want to update all my customer branches with the latest fixes
> and patches. Naively, I would just check out each branch and merge the
> stable branch - job done.

Yep, that's what I'd do.

> However, is it sensible to ask if there is a
> way to say that the stable branch is more important if there are
> conflicts.

Not really. The git approach is to assume that... when there is a
conflict, you must look into it. A human needs to take a decision...

> Or should I be using rebase instead (which I still don't
> really understand). I'm trying to reduce my workload as there are
> loads of branches to do.

No, rebase will increase the load and complexity.

cheers,



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