question concerning branches

From: Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>
Date: Aug 19, 2009, 19:21 UTC
Message-ID: <4a8c4ece@wupperonline.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vr5v7vehj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> This is one of the most useful features.

Wow. I'm sursprised to hear that, because I consider it at the moment as a very strange one.

> For example, it is an essential
> part of supporting the workflow described here:
>     http://gitster.livejournal.com/25892.html

Here is what I'd expect to do with git (described with my own words, not in git commands):

1. commit the quick fix to the release branch
2. push this single commit to origin and master

Now that all branches have the commit a later push and pull should notice this and "skip" it.

This leads to a second question I have. Assuming I have three patches in my repo (#1, #2 and #3), is it possible to push only #2 (because it is a quick fix) and later, maybe after I committed #4, the rest, i.e. #1, #2 and #4?

Ingo