Re: [hibernate-dev] Applying commits from 3.6 to master

This morning I had a bug fix from an IRC discussion and decided to use it to try this stuff out. I chose to work on this on a topic branch created from master. I ran into worse trouble than you had :) About 6 hours on #git helped me get a working answer, though not any better understanding. The basic steps in the process were: 1) create a backport branch from the original feature branch. 2) use rebase -i to perform the actual backport 3) merge to the target branch My complete workflow was as follows: 1) Create the topic branch: git checkout -b HHH-5706-lob-offset 2) Do my work 3) Commit work to the topic branch git commit ... 4) Create a backport branch git checkout -b HHH-5706-lob-offset-backport HHH-5706-lob-offset 5) Git rebase changes to backport branch git rebase --onto 3.6 master 6) Git merge the backport to the 3.6 branch git checkout 3.6 git merge HHH-5706-lob-offset-backport 7) Git merge topic branch to master git checkout master git merge HHH-5706-lob-offset 8) Push changes git push 9) Clean up git branch -d HHH-5706-lob-offset git branch -d HHH-5706-lob-offset-backport Lot of work. Lot of the folks on #git seemed to empathize that this is a bit more convoluted than it might should be. Another option I was looking at with them keeping along the lines of separate clones for work on the 3.6 and master branches was to use refs (origin for example) between the local 3.6 and master clones. In fact you can clone one to the other locally! On Friday, October 29, 2010, at 01:19 pm, Adam Warski wrote: --- Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; http://hibernate.org