23.01.2019, 21:38, "Alex Blasche" <[email protected]>:
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Martin Smith
>> If you make all patches in dev and then cherrypick them back to earlier 
>> versions that need them, why would you ever do a merge?
>
> At the end of the day each cherry-pick is a merge too and they can conflict 
> too. The conflict resolution process is still the same. if everything is 
> conflict free then a git merge would be no more difficult than a cherry-pick.

And when conflicts are present, cherry-picking N patches may result in N times
more work than merge in worst case (and same amount of work in the best case)

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin

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