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git merge strategy for cherry picks

Subject: git merge strategy for cherry picks

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Joshua Jensen· Mar 23, 2011, 19:06 UTC · lore

In this thread, the question was asked about a merge with cherry picks and the reapplication of lines that had been removed: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/2/19/23857/thread

Consider this scenario:
     line line  line re-added
      +    -    +!!
A -- B -- C -- F  master
   \  |        /
    - B' --...-    milestone
I branch the milestone branch from A.

There is a fix, B, that needs to go in the milestone. I cleanly cherry-pick it as B'; there are no conflicts.

The fix is decided to be bad and is removed in C.

Later, I merge the milestone branch back to master. The B 'fix' is re-added without conflict.

How can I correctly merge milestone into master without reintroducing the B 'fix'?

In contrast, if I run, say, 'gitk --cherry-pick master...milestone', I see that B' is not considered a difference between master and milestone.

Thanks.
Josh

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