Re: [PATCH] rebase: add `--update-refs=interactive`
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- Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
- Date
- Feb 13, 2025, 09:43 UTC
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On 12/02/2025 16:58, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes: > >> Maintaining multiple versions of the same branch sounds like a lot of >> work - whats the advantage over merging a single branch into each >> release? > > Making a single branch that would merge to each release track > cleanly, with preparing and maintaining semantic fixes necessary for > each track, is probably equally a lot of work, if not more. I try > to do that for this project only because I am a perfectionist for > these things (and do so for fun), but I can understand if many > others (a pragmatist in me included) consider it not worth the > effort. After all, it stops mattering once the branch finally gets > merged.
Thanks for that insight, I'd assumed the benefits of having a single source of truth for each branch outweighed the costs but it seems that is not necessarily the case.
Best Wishes
Phillip