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Re: push.default???

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 23, 2009, 17:59 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> One glitch I can think of is what would happen if you do not want to merge
> your feature for final testing to master, but instead rebase your feature
> on top of master (let's not discuss why you should or should not rebase at
> this point; some projects seem to insist you rebase and there may be no
> good technical reason but that is not the topic here).  There currently is
> no easy UI other than:
>
>       $ git checkout master
>       $ git pull --rebase . feature
>       $ test test test
>       $ git push origin master
> ...
> to tell git to integrate your local work done in 'feature' to 'master' by
> rebasing, instead of merging.

Sorry, but I screwed up. The above rebases 'master', so it does not do what we want to do. The only way I can think of is:

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> or even worse:
>
>       $ git checkout feature
>       $ git rebase master
>       $ git checkout master
>       $ git merge feature
>       $ test test test
>       $ git push origin master

which is too much typing. That makes my suspicion that the conclusion of my previous message is correct even stronger.

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> Could it be possible that this desire to push "tracking" is not a cure for
> anything real, but merely a kludge to work around a misfeature of "rebase"
> UI that does not allow "integrate that branch here but do not merge it but
> by first rebasing it"?  In other words, if we had "git merge --rebase" (I
> know, I know, it is a terrible name.  The word "merge" in this context
> means "to integrate"), the above can be done more naturally:
>
>       $ git checkout master
>       $ git merge --rebase feature
>       $ test test test
>       $ git push origin master
>
> and the matching push (or "git push origin HEAD") becomes the right thing
> to do, eliminating the need for "put my 'feature' into their 'master'".
>
> For a group that sets up a shared public branch to be used for working
> together on some feature, replace 'master' with 'some feature' above, and
> 'feature' with 'your part of the work on the feature'; the story is the
> same.
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  1. Paolo BonziniJun 22, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 22, 2009
  3. Paolo BonziniJun 22, 2009
  4. Finn Arne GangstadJun 23, 2009
  5. Paolo BonziniJun 23, 2009
  6. Finn Arne GangstadJun 23, 2009
  7. Andreas EricssonJun 23, 2009
  8. Finn Arne GangstadJun 23, 2009
  9. Andreas EricssonJun 23, 2009
  10. Paolo BonziniJun 23, 2009
  11. Finn Arne GangstadJun 23, 2009
  12. Paolo BonziniJun 23, 2009
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2009
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2009
  15. Miles BaderJun 24, 2009
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 24, 2009
  17. Paolo BonziniJun 24, 2009
  18. Finn Arne GangstadJun 24, 2009

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