Hi John,

On 2013-01-31, at 14:40, John Ralls <[email protected]> wrote:

> [...]
> This breaks down when B and C affect the same code that D does. Obviously you 
> resolve those conflicts in favor of the development branch when you merge D. 
> No problem, right? Well, you have to resolve them again for every subsequent 
> merge. That snowballs into "too hard" after a few dozen changes,

I really doubt this is the case. Merging a branch into another multiple times 
in history is a fundamental git workflow and is rightly touted as one of its 
strengths.

> as my merge of 2.4 into trunk demonstrated.

I think your merge demonstrated that cherry-picking/backporting causes git to 
see conflicting changes to the same lines and borks merge attempts.

Regards,

Yawar


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