What you’re seeing in this example (with Temporary merge branch markers) is the result of diff3 with a criss-cross merge conflict. I’ll explain this with a sequence of definitions. Definitions merge base: The commit where the two merging branches most recently diverged from. When a merge conflict occurs, different changes were made to the same lines … Read more
Let’s assume that A is a strict, direct child of the current branch. Then assume that B is a strict, direct child of A. The octopus merge, which processes heads given as arguments from left to right, incrementally with respect to the tree, but independently with respect to the index succeeds without conflict if it … Read more
Don’t do the rebase and you’re set. Simply merge your bugfix branch into each branch you need it (master)$ git checkout -b bugfix # do bug fix here (bugfix)$ git commit -a -m ‘Fixed bug.’ (bugfix)$ git checkout master (master)$ git merge bugfix (bugfix)$ git checkout experimental (experimental)$ git merge bugfix When doing the rebase … Read more
The answer is yes for default merges. A three-way merge finds a common ancestor and then applies the differences from both sides, an operation that isn’t order dependent. The topic of merge-ordering and commutativity generated a fascinating discussion on the git list (if you’re into that kind of thing, that is). Note B into C … Read more
Just pass the -m and –no-ff parameters to the merge command: $ git merge other-branch -m “Commit Message” –no-ff The –no-ff parameter is required to prevent merging as a fast-forward without merge commit.
Before you begin, if you are uncomfortable with a command line, you can do all the following steps using SourceTree, GitExtensions, GitHub Desktop, or your favorite tool. To solve the issue, you might have two scenarios: 1. Fix only remote repository branch which is behind commit Example: Both branches are on the remote side ahead … Read more
You can still work on that branch as it still exists. The git-merge documentation says: Incorporates changes from the named commits (since the time their histories diverged from the current branch) into the current branch. You can continue working on your branch and then when you merge with master again, it will bring the commits … Read more
These steps should do the trick: Get the sha’s needed: git log <sha1> is the commit right before the merge <sha2> is the last commit on develop before you started working on the feature git checkout develop git checkout -b feature/<feature-name> git reset <sha1> –hard git checkout develop git reset <sha2> –hard Push your feature … Read more
This scenario is not unusual. The key here is that the branches being merged are different: it’s the remote repository’s develop branch being merged into the developer’s local (working) develop branch. In the developer’s local repository there are two distinct branches: develop = The branch he/she is currently working on. The new commits go here. … Read more
Let’s say you’ve named your branches like so: A — B — C — D (master) \– E — G — H — I — J (current-parent) \– K — L (my-branch) What you want to do is rebase my-branch onto the B commit like so: git rebase current-parent my-branch –onto B