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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux•de>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git branch workflow
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:05:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101123030516.GA27595@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101122170805.8jtzkqwxpcog0kgk@dennymagicsite.com>

* denny@dennymagicsite•com <denny@dennymagicsite•com> wrote:

> Consider a specific scenario:
> I am on dev server on master branch and I want to develop a specific  
> feature F.
> I cut a Feature branch F from master and start working on the feature.  
>   Once I am done with most of the work on F and it works reasonably  
> well, I want to push it to production, but .. before I do I realize  
> that I want to make some CSS fixes to the site, unrelated to other  
> branches, and I can wait with pushing Feature branch to Production  
> until I fix up CSS reasonably well.
> Here is the question:  do I cut the CSS branch from Master or do I cut  
> it from the Feature branch?

My advise: always fork from the latest stable revision (in your case:
production server's master). Before merging, always rebase onto latest
master and possibly rerun the test cycle.


cu
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-23 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-22 17:08 Git branch workflow denny
2010-11-23  0:43 ` tom fogal
2010-11-23  3:05 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2010-11-23 15:47 ` Drew Northup

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