Eric Frederich <eric.frederich@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Often times I get into a situation where I have a "development" branch > that gets ahead of say a "stable" branch. > When I am ready to call the development branch stable this is what I do. > > $ git checkout stable > $ git merge development > $ git checkout development Instead of switching to "stable", while still on the development, you could do $ git push . HEAD:stable which would succeed only when you are purely ahead of stable (otherwise it will fail as you are not forcing). -- 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