From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:58:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rebase: add `--update-refs=interactive`
Message-ID: <xmqqh64zumkw.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <5b605c3e-ef6a-433a-9637-1e8f277dfde9@gmail.com>

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> Maintaining multiple versions of the same branch sounds like a lot of
> work - whats the advantage over merging a single branch into each
> release?

Making a single branch that would merge to each release track
cleanly, with preparing and maintaining semantic fixes necessary for
each track, is probably equally a lot of work, if not more.  I try
to do that for this project only because I am a perfectionist for
these things (and do so for fun), but I can understand if many
others (a pragmatist in me included) consider it not worth the
effort.  After all, it stops mattering once the branch finally gets
merged.