Re: [Q] merging from one (kernel) stable to another?

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mar 30, 2009, 13:52 UTC
Message-ID: <49D0CE95.6020407@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <200903301451.33956.brian.foster@innova-card.com>

Brian Foster wrote:

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> On Monday 30 March 2009 14:19:11 Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> Brian Foster wrote:
> 
>>>   (4)  Tag the result `like-this';
>>>   (5)  Checkout our.21;  and
>>>   (6)  Merge with `like-this'.
>> Merge is not necessary.
> 
>   <Shrugs/>  I'll going to try in both ways (with and without
>  merging) to better understand just what the results are like.

If you get the tree into the state you want and simply want to connect the histories, you can do

  git merge -s ours $other_branch

which will record the tree from the current commit as the tree for the merge-commit (ie, all changes from $other_branch are thrown away, and the merge always succeeds without conflicts).

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