From: lists@mgreg.com <lists@mgreg.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:48:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Merging to and from non-current branches.
Message-ID: <C766A4F9-C12B-4F94-8B24-9BD3665B70E8@mgreg.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0908051428g40b7678ewc549f079abbd03ee@mail.gmail.com>


On Aug 5, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 04:48, lists@mgreg.com<lists@mgreg.com> wrote:
>> I appreciate your post.  I understand what you're saying, and I'm  
>> not so
>> much concerned about the logistics of what need to occur so much as  
>> a single
>> command to intuitively handle it.  I've been doing a great deal of
>> incremental development lately and it becomes rather tedious to  
>> have to
>> checkout master, merge dev, re-checkout dev and proceed.  I'm not  
>> sure why
>> this isn't currently possible with a single command.
>
> Because no one needed this sequence of commands for long enough.

As I said, I understand what is being said, but in IMHO it would seem  
that a merge of that nature would be immediately desirable.  Think of  
it more as a local "push".  I'm never a fan of "because it hasn't be  
done means it shouldn't be".  I realize that's not exactly what you're  
saying though.  Anyway, I absolutely appreciate the post, and may very  
well post the script.

Best,

Michael