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Re: What is the scenario for a commit with 3 or more parents

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2010, 18:22 UTC
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Heya,
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 13:10, Joshua Juran <jjuran@gmail.com> wrote:
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> How about if you had two (or more) components with a shared protocol, and
> you updated each to speak a new (and incompatible) protocol.  The changes to
> each component might be done in separate topic branches, but you'd want to
> merge them all at once.
>
> $ git checkout master
> $ git merge client-v2 server-v2

Very nice example, but do we have it _documented_ anywhere? If not, it would be great if you could add that somewhere :)

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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Message 6 of 9 in “What is the scenario for a commit with 3 or more parents”
  1. Bradley WagnerJul 29, 2010
  2. Shawn O. PearceJul 29, 2010
  3. Sverre RabbelierJul 29, 2010
  4. Bradley WagnerJul 29, 2010
  5. Joshua JuranJul 29, 2010
  6. Sverre RabbelierJul 29, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2010
  8. Sverre RabbelierJul 29, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2010

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