git merge strategy for cherry picks
From: Joshua Jensen <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:50:51
In this thread, the question was asked about a merge with cherry picks and the reapplication of lines that had been removed: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2010/2/19/23857/thread Consider this scenario: line line line re-added + - +!! A -- B -- C -- F master \ | / - B' --...- milestone I branch the milestone branch from A. There is a fix, B, that needs to go in the milestone. I cleanly cherry-pick it as B'; there are no conflicts. The fix is decided to be bad and is removed in C. Later, I merge the milestone branch back to master. The B 'fix' is re-added without conflict. How can I correctly merge milestone into master without reintroducing the B 'fix'? In contrast, if I run, say, 'gitk --cherry-pick master...milestone', I see that B' is not considered a difference between master and milestone. Thanks. Josh