Re: fast forward a branch from another

> Eric Frederich venit, vidit, dixit 12.05.2011 16:40:
>> Often times I get into a situation where I have a "development" branch
>> that gets ahead of say a "stable" branch.
>> When I am ready to call the development branch stable this is what I do.
>>
>> $ git checkout stable
>> $ git merge development
>> $ git checkout development
>>
>> The problem here is that the act of going backwards (via checking out
>> stable) really messes up my IDE and or Text editors.
>> Is there any way to do this without switching branches, which modifies
>> my working directory, which messes up my IDE?
> 
> I assume this is a ff-situation, i.e. stable is fully contained in
> developement? then you can reset branch stable like this:
> 
> test 0 -eq $(git rev-list  --count ^development stable) && git branch -f
> stable development
> 
> (I thought you could git rev-list --quiet but I'm too dumb :|)