From: Eric Frederich <eric.frederich@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 14:40:16 GMT
Subject: fast forward a branch from another
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=PtkDp8PNdMNi3hTwHPjFg+Jtftw@mail.gmail.com>

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?

Thanks,
~Eric