Push merges?

Ryan Leigh· Mar 26, 2008, 21:52 UTC · lore

Hello all,

I've been getting to know git and I've stumbled across a "problem" and I haven't yet been able to find a solution. For example, say I have a branch "base" and two branches of that "foo" and "bar". I make some change in "base", commit it, and now I would like to have it in both "foo" and "bar". Is there a command that rather than get another branch and merge with the current branch will instead take the current branch and apply a merge on other branches? I've done google searches and looking through documentation and tutorials and I can't seem to find an answer one way or another. I wanted to make sure that before I go write some script to handle it that what I am looking for isn't already a feature.

Thank you, Ryan

Jeff King· Mar 27, 2008, 03:09 UTC · re: Ryan Leigh · lore

Re: Push merges?

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:52:06PM -0700, Ryan Leigh wrote:

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> I've been getting to know git and I've stumbled across a "problem" and
> I haven't yet been able to find a solution. For example, say I have a
> branch "base" and two branches of that "foo" and "bar". I make some
> change in "base", commit it, and now I would like to have it in both
> "foo" and "bar". Is there a command that rather than get another
> branch and merge with the current branch will instead take the current
> branch and apply a merge on other branches? I've done google searches

No, there isn't such a command. Merges must be done one at a time because they use the index and working tree to report conflicts.

So what you are asking for is the moral equivalent of:

  for i in foo bar; do
    git checkout $i && git merge master
  done

and you could do it that way, except that the 'merge' step may fail with conflicts that need to be fixed up by hand.

-Peff