Re: [gentoo-catalyst] rfc: merging catalyst git branches

[William Hubbs]

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 07:48:52PM +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 05:16 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> >  Yes, I saw it, but it doesn't seem to do what we want. It merges the
> >  branches together instead of swapping them.
>
> Maybe it's not what _you_ want, but it does
>
>  - make catalyst_2 content appear on master
>
>  - doesn't break fast forward "git pull" for anyone
>
>  - supports branching catalyst_2 off master, too

The method you are suggesting does _NOT_ make the current content of
master appear on catalyst_3, which is the other part of what releng is
requesting.

What I think I can do, but I'm not quite sure how to do it, is:

1) create a catalyst_3 branch at the same point in history where
catalyst_2 was created. I believe I can accomplish this with

git branch catalyst_3 $(git merge-base master catalyst_2)

2) put the code on master that is _NOT_ on catalyst_2 on catalyst_3.

Any suggestions for how to do this?

3) put the code on catalyst_2 on master.

What about this?

William