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Re: theirs/ours was Re: [PATCH 6/6] Add a new test for using a custom merge strategy

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 28, 2008, 19:26 UTC
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<20080728192651.GA26677@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:09:55PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Well, I have to say that the workflow is a bit backwards if the person who 
> _publishes_ the thing is the one saying "Ooops, my version no goodie, 
> other version please, but so that pull still works".
> 
> I would have expected the one who has the good version to make the choice.

My situation was two long-running branches, "stable" and "devel", both of which were worked on by many developers. One person was in charge of integration and branch management. They wanted "stable" to get the contents of "devel" (which were now ready for release), ignoring any small fixes that had been done on "stable" (since they had all been moved over to "devel" previously, but in subtly different ways that would create conflicts). And "git reset" was not an option, because they wanted to keep the history of "stable" in case those fixes needed to be looked at later.

So the logical sequence was:
  git checkout production
  git merge -s theirs master
-Peff
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Message 6 of 28 in “theirs/ours was Re: [PATCH 6/6] Add a new test for using a custom merge strategy”
  1. Sverre RabbelierJul 28, 2008
  2. Miklos VajnaJul 28, 2008
  3. Sverre RabbelierJul 28, 2008
  4. Jeff KingJul 28, 2008
  5. Johannes SchindelinJul 28, 2008
  6. Jeff KingJul 28, 2008
  7. Avery PennarunJul 28, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinJul 28, 2008
  9. Sverre RabbelierJul 29, 2008
  10. Jeff KingJul 29, 2008
  11. Jeff KingJul 29, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinJul 29, 2008
  13. Jeff KingJul 29, 2008
  14. Sverre RabbelierJul 29, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2008
  16. Jeff KingJul 29, 2008
  17. Mike RalphsonJul 29, 2008
  18. Jeff KingJul 29, 2008
  19. Sverre RabbelierJul 28, 2008
  20. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2008
  21. Sverre RabbelierJul 28, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2008
  23. Sverre RabbelierJul 28, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2008
  25. Junio C HamanoJul 28, 2008
  26. Sverre RabbelierJul 28, 2008
  27. Jeff KingJul 29, 2008
  28. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2008

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