On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 06:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfn...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] > Your understanding is correct, but I don't think your sentence reads > so well. I agree with you that the sentence in the book does not > sound optimal either. Here's what I would write: > > Original: > > > This basically says, “Check out the client branch, figure out the > > patches from the common ancestor of the client and server branches, > > and then replay them onto master.” > > > Suggestion: > > > This basically says, “Take the client branch, figure out the > > patches since it diverged from the master branch, and replay these > > patches in the client branch as if it was based directly off the > > master branch instead". In other words: transplant the client > > branch to be based off the master branch instead of server. I like your version much better! By the way, in the hope to be useful to the OP, here's my attempt to explain to someone the difference between cherry-picking and rebasing [1] which extensively touches on how rebasing "replays" commits on a branch which that branch has "on top" of where it's being rebased onto. It uses the pictures from the book being discussed. ;-) 1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/11837630/720999 -- 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.
