[git-users] Re: How to promote a Git branch to another repo master

2012-12-09 Thread John McKown
OOPS, forgot the very last step. Once you've verified that the git merge worked the way you want, do a "git branch -d branch-with-files". You might want to do a "git gc" as well just to recompress everything. But it's not absolutely necessary. I'm just a bit minus on space. On Sunday, December

[git-users] Re: How to promote a Git branch to another repo master

2012-12-09 Thread John McKown
Do you mean that you have a "distribution repository" (without a working directory) and you want to add to it what is in a non-master branch in another git-managed directory (i.e. it has a "working directory" with the files). Have you looked to see if submodules or subtrees will do what you wan