In a workflow that uses topic branches heavily, you would need to keep
updating test integration branch(es) all the time. If they are managed
like my 'next' by merging the tips of topics that have grown since the
last integration, it is not so difficult. You only need to review output
from "git branch --no-merged next" to see if there are topics that can and
needs to be merged to 'next'.
But sometimes it is easier to rebuild a test integration branch from
scratch all the time, especially if you do not publish it for others to
build on.
I've been using this script for some time to rebuild jch and pu branches
in my workflow. jch's tip is supposed to always match 'next', but it is
rebuilt from scratch on top of 'master' by merging the same topics that
are in 'next'. You can use the same script in your work.
To use it, you give a commit range base..tip to the script, and you will
see a shell script that uses a series of 'git-merge'. "base" is the more
stable branch that you rebuild your test integration branch on top (in my
case, 'master'), and "tip" is where the tip of the test integration branch
is from the last round (in my case, 'jch' or 'pu').
Then you can run the resulting script, fix conflicted merge and use
'git-commit', and then repeat until all the branches are re-integrated on
top of the base branch.
$ Meta/Reintegrate master..jch >/var/tmp/redo-jch.sh
$ cat /var/tmp/redo-jch.sh
#!/bin/sh
while read branch eh
do
case "$eh" in
"") git merge "$branch" || break ;;
?*) echo >&2 "Eh? $branch $eh"; break ;;
esac
done <<EOF
jc/blame
js/notes
ks/maint-mailinfo-folded~3
tr/previous-branch
EOF
$ git checkout jch
$ git reset --hard master
$ /var/tmp/redo-jch.sh
... if there is conflict, resolve, "git commit" here ...
$ /var/tmp/redo-jch.sh
... repeat until everything is applied.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano