Perhaps I should explain what I am trying to do. We have several project branches where developers commit their code (A "project" is a set of related features). The project branches are frequently merged to an integration branch where the code is compiled and then deployed from. (1 integration branch is created per release)
If a project is pulled from the release and there is no way to simply "disable" it's code, we need to remove that code from the integration branch. Since removing code is a tedious process, we normally end up creating a new integration view and re-merging the remaining project branches to it which is a lot of re-work and time-consuming, thereby causing the project schedule to take a hit. GIT has a feature called "rerere" that records the conflict resolutions in a cache so that it can be later replayed. A few folks have written some scripts that make use of "git rerere" and several low level git commands to create a new integration branch and re-merge the remaining project branches to it (see links below) which is a pretty neat idea. However, if the script encounters a merge that came from a tag on a project branch it does not correctly exclude it, probably because the "exclude parameter" passed to the script accepts a branch name but the script uses "git name-rev" (on each of the parent's SHASUMs) to find out the name of the branch which returns the tag name instead of the branch where the tag was used to merged from. I need to find a way to make this work (i.e. pass project branch name to the script's "--exclude" parameter and rely on the script to exclude merged from it to the new integration branch. http://www.ivoverberk.nl/blog/2013/11/08/git-workflow-automated-branch-per-feature/ http://www.acquia.com/blog/pragmatic-guide-branch-feature-git-branching-strategy As you may be able to tell, I am fairly new to GIT and haven't played around it for long, so some of my assumptions may be incorrect. Feel free to point them out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
