Hi,
> You have a common source "master". > You have two very large sets of changes from master, A and B. > You need to apply patches to both A and B. These patches will apply > cleanly to both. > But these patches will not apply to the last common "master" where A and B > diverged.' > > Is that correct so far? > CORRECT. 99% of cases they will apply cleanly on both, 1% with conflicts. Some of the patches might even apply to "old common master", but it would not compile or not work if it would compile. Old master is a third branch we do not want to maintain because it is useless without very large sets of changes in A and B. regards, Matevz -- 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.