From: Lin Mac Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:34:12 GMT Subject: Re: How to move a big branches to a new base? Message-ID: <10d816431003040134j103c567if10aacf0fa10701f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43d8ce651003021954o1411efd2i1a1f26e9b8ed5d54@mail.gmail.com> 2010/3/3 John Tapsell : > I tend to keep my branches as small as possible - a few commits at > most.  And avoid merges like the plague.  This seems to work pretty > well. > Remember you can squash your commits together to keep the branches > clean and well-ordered. squash is a powerful tools, but doens't help much in this situation. In other word, one have to prevent a branch to becoming a tree. Does it worth to have a new tool for such situation? Best Regard, Mac Lin