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Branch of branches when using GIT

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A newbie question. Organization "Foo" has developers Sam, Fred, and Guido. The org clones Project X and over time realizes their own branch needs to be separate from the project for a while. Sam, Fred, and Guido each branch their code for the parts of the project they are working on.

When Foo decides X-Foo is ready to merge with the master, can the three developers merge their changes into Foo's branch, and then merge the corporate branch into the project? Assuming everyone is willing, of course.

posted Jul 8, 2013 by anonymous

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merging is not specific to the "master" branch. Actually, master is no different from any other branch except that it gets created automatically upon git init. So yes, any developer branch can be merged into any other branch (company-wide, or an other devs branch).

answer Jul 8, 2013 by anonymous
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