
10 Jun
2013
10 Jun
'13
11:13 a.m.
Hi Ian, On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:45:22AM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
Is this possible with subtrees?:
* Initially ghc's Cabal repo is at the same commit as upstream * We make a local commit 123 in Cabal to fix some bug * Cabal upstream makes a commit 456 to fix the same bug differently * We jump to commit 456, in such a way that we don't end up merging with our 123 commit every time we pull from Cabal in the future
Yes. Every repository that's added by git-subtree to your repository is represented as a separate branch. So everything that applies to the merging of branches also applies to the merging by git-subtree. Greetings, Daniel