Re: What to do with patches that should go upstream?
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Jeenu V <jeenuv@gmail.com>
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- Jan 13, 2010, 10:34 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Jeenu V <jeenuv@gmail.com> writes: > >> For example, in the following figure, >> >> A >> -O---O-+ >> \ A' B' >> -O---O---O---O---O---O---O W >> / >> -O----O--+ >> >> W is the current working branch. But there are commits A' and B' which >> should go upstream. What I wanted to know is the next step from here. >> >> 1) Do I switch to A and B, and then cherry pick the commits A' and B'? >> 2) If I send the patch out to include in upstream, wouldn't it >> conflict the next time I happen to merge from A or B? > > I don't see B in your picture, so I may not be answering the question you > wanted to ask, or you perhaps asked something other than the question you > wanted to ask. Having said that, I think you are asking two more-or-less > independent questions.
Sorry, B was meant to be the branch at the bottom. But anyway I think I got hints on what I needed. Thank you for your descriptive reply.
-- :J