merge into branch currently not active / checked out

Hello,
is it possible to merge into a branch currently not active/checked out?
I have the following scenario:

        - One branch per feature (cstatus, headers, mutt-collapse-flags, small-fixes)
        - One upstream branch (master)
        - One branch that has every feature branch (tg)

(faui00u) [~/work/mutt/mutt] git branch
  cstatus
  headers
  master
  mutt-collapse-flags
  small-fixes
* tg

I want to merge master in every of the feature branches. Is that possible or
just bullshit because I don't have a working tree to handle conflicts?

        Thomas

Thomas Glanzmann, Sun, Jun 17, 2007 09:22:25 +0200:

Hello,
is it possible to merge into a branch currently not active/checked out?

not in current implementation of merge algorithms and conflict
handling.

I want to merge master in every of the feature branches. Is that possible or
just bullshit because I don't have a working tree to handle conflicts?

You are _very_ welcome to improve this :) It's not very often need, so
people just do without it (i.e. clone the repo, do a merge there and
pull back).