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0 pointsbarrkel10y ago0 comments

If you have a long-running feature branch you need to merge back into master, you have to rebase it against the current master. There's really no other choice.

Yes you do. Merge master into your branch. Rebasing long-running branches is a nightmare, because every diff you replay will probably result in a conflict, and if you have hundreds of commits, you could be there for several days rebasing. Merges, even massive merges, generally don't take more than a few hours. All project size dependent of course, but the ratio of work is about right: 5-10x more work for a rebase over a commit.

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hayd10y ago

Whilst this is occasionally useful, it's best avoided in my opinion as it's incredibly difficult to review a merge commit (especially a large merge commit).

(Most of the time I'd advocate, if you have to do larger project branches, either merging work in piecemeal asap e.g. hidden behind a flag or whatever, or keeping work in new files so that merge conflicts are kept to a minimum.)

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hayd10y ago

Whilst this is occasionally useful, it's best avoided in my opinion as it's incredibly difficult to review a merge commit (especially a large merge commit).

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