Re: Git: to merge or not to merge.

2008-10-27 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/10/27 12:03 +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: > Thank you Trevor, could you show me an example? > Suppose I'd have the two branches freshly pulled, and I wanted to > update a file after some changes in master. > > I could: merge master, update my file, edit the committish of that > file to the

Re: Git: to merge or not to merge.

2008-10-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
Francisco Vila Monday, October 27, 2008 11:03 AM 2008/10/27 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sometimes there is another commit in between and therefore I cannot fast forward, but I deal with it by preparing a patch, resetting, and applying it afterwards. I think cherry-pick will do this

Re: Git: to merge or not to merge.

2008-10-27 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/10/27 Trevor Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Sometimes there is another commit in between and therefore I cannot >> fast forward, but I deal with it by preparing a patch, resetting, and >> applying it afterwards. > > I think cherry-pick will do this for you automatically, and > with less effor

Re: Git: to merge or not to merge.

2008-10-27 Thread Trevor Daniels
Francisco Vila Monday, October 27, 2008 9:42 AM 2008/10/27 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 2008/10/26 23:32 +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: I'm sure you have noticed that I do a merge of master into lilypond/translation every few days. I am sorry if this is considered a pollution of the

Re: Git: to merge or not to merge.

2008-10-27 Thread Francisco Vila
2008/10/27 John Mandereau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2008/10/26 23:32 +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: >> I'm sure you have noticed that I do a merge of master into >> lilypond/translation every few days. I am sorry if this is considered >> a pollution of the history or some kind of inconvenient for any

Re: Git: to merge or not to merge.

2008-10-26 Thread John Mandereau
On 2008/10/26 23:32 +0100, Francisco Vila wrote: > I'm sure you have noticed that I do a merge of master into > lilypond/translation every few days. I am sorry if this is considered > a pollution of the history or some kind of inconvenient for any > reason. If so, please tell me. As long as we nee

Git: to merge or not to merge.

2008-10-26 Thread Francisco Vila
I'm sure you have noticed that I do a merge of master into lilypond/translation every few days. I am sorry if this is considered a pollution of the history or some kind of inconvenient for any reason. If so, please tell me. The fact is: in the past I have suffered of an inconvenient "continuous ou