[Development] Proposal: New branch model

[Edward Welbourne]

On 24.1.2019 11.13, Edward Welbourne wrote:
>> A cherry-pick takes the diff involved in one commit and patches
>> another check-out with it.  A merge uses the digraph of commits in
>> sophisticated ways; a cherry-pick does not.

Kari Oikarinen (24 January 2019 10:33)
> Quoting man page for git-cherry-pick: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-cherry-pick
>
> "For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three versions,
> as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of git-merge[1]. The working
> tree files will include a description of the conflict bracketed by the
> usual conflict markers <<<<<<< and >>>>>>>."
>
> It is similar enough that it actually refers to the same section of
> documentation!

I stand corrected.
Time to re-read the cherry-pick docs.
My apologies to Allan for my misunderstanding.

> But it doesn't actually create a new common ancestor for the
> commits. So every further cherry-pick can still hit the same
> conflict. Instead of being resolved by the merge, there's an unbounded
> amount of time that different people will hit it and need to resolve
> it.

That's a good point.

	Eddy.