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Re: git merge mess to sort out
From: |
Carl Sorensen |
Subject: |
Re: git merge mess to sort out |
Date: |
Fri, 27 May 2011 19:53:34 -0600 |
On 5/27/11 6:16 AM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'd like to be able to do
> git checkout master
> git merge stable/2.14
> as implied by step 1 of "post release" on:
>
>
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/minor-release-checklis>
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>
> This step is useful to get the news announcement of the release; I
> don't expect to see anything else in these merges.
>
> Unfortunately, at the moment this produces a bunch of merge conflicts.
> Probably nothing serious, but it's an annoyance. Since it's been so
> long since the last release, I just went ahead and re-created the news
> announcements (which of course creates another merge conflict).
The merge conflicts exist probably mostly because we have snippets listed at
both 2.13.6x and 2.15.0. I guess once a snippet is backported to 2.13.6x,
it should have the 2.13.6x in both stable/2.14 and master. I haven't done
that, so I guess it's my mess to clean up.
>
> Does anybody feel like playing with git? I suppose this could be a
> useful exercise in git frustration if anybody wants to learn how to
> deal with conflicts. Or a git expert could probably spend 5 minutes
> to clear it all up.
I'll take it on.
Thanks,
Carl