Re: [git-users] What is the "best practice" for merging multiple branches at once?

2015-08-30 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Hello, this depends on your workflow. In the workflow of one of my projects we would rebase branch1, test and fast-forward merge it to master. Then rebase branch2 to the new master, test, ff-merge, etc. On GitHub this would probably mean 4 subsequent merging. On some other project it may be an o

[git-users] What is the "best practice" for merging multiple branches at once?

2015-08-30 Thread Michael
Lets say I have 4 branches off master. I have tested, and found that they are all ready to go. What's the best way to merge them in? Is it: 1. A single merge onto master of all 4 branches at once. 2. One-by-one merging from the commit where they branched off, in order of oldest branch first. 3.

[git-users] Merging parts of a commit tree into another

2015-08-30 Thread Michael
This may seem a little strange. I'd like to merge parts of one commit sequence into another. Off of "master", I have a bunch of small sequences of 3-4 commits, generally. Each on their own branch. I have "integrationTest", branched off master, that has each of these merged in. >From Integratio