On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 09:42:21AM -0800, Jason Neumann wrote: > I have a git repo with a couple of branches. The commit tree looks like > this: > > *----*----*master > | | > | |----------*feature > | > |------*qa > > So I created a qa branch from master, had some commits to master and to qa, > then created a feature branch from master. > > Now I would like to merge the feature branch into qa. When i checkout qa > and run `git merge feature --no-commit` I see that it's trying to merge the > commits to master that occurred after qa was checked out. While this is > technically ok because qa needs to be updated from master, I feel like this > isnt the right process. Should I rebase or qa before merging the feature
What makes you think that it isn't the right process?
AFAIU you want to create this:
master
*─────*────*
│ │ feature
│ └────────────*
│ │
└─────────*─────────────*
qa
That is, you want to merge in all changes that's happened on `feature`
after the branch point and that necessarily involves any changes on
`master` between the branch point of `qa` and `feature` too.
> branch? No branches have been created from the qa branch so I know I wont
> break the repo if I rebase. Merging master and then merging feature seem
> like it wouldn't be any different than just merging feature. Is that
> correct?
You would get a history that looks different, since you have two merge
changesets. However, content wise there should be no different.
> Any suggestions on the matter would be appreciated.
Just go ahead with the merge you initially planned.
/M
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