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Re: git rebase orthodontics

From
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date
Jan 7, 2009, 16:10 UTC
Message-ID
<200901071010.43926.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
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<87sknvxje8.fsf@jidanni.org>
If you want to go from:
>               A jidanni
>              /
> D---E---F---G master
To:
> D---E---F---G---A master, jidanni

You don't want rebase. You want 'git checkout master && git merge jidanni'. I think you can throw --no-commit on the merge is you want to avoid a non-ff update to the master ref.

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