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How to automatically merge changes from many branches in GIT?

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One practice of using git to have one feature per branch.

Let's say a developer has worked on many small features in many branches. Then he sends one pull request to the central (not controlled by him) for each feature he has developed. While he is waiting for all the features be merged into the central repository, he needs to use all these feature locally.

To do so, he may need to merge the changes in these branches to his local master branch. But this can be tedious when he has many branches.

Is there a way to somehow setup a branch so whenever something is committed to the branch, the changes will also be simultaneously committed to the local master branch? By this way, the develop can avoid having to merge changes from many branches.

posted Apr 2, 2015 by Amit Parthsarthi

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If by tedious you mean resolve the same merge conflict multiple times, then rerere (http://git-scm.com/blog/2010/03/08/rerere.html ) may solve your problem.

If you want to go the way you described, you will have to implement some client side hooks, which cherry pick your new commits on another branch. This, however, may introduce merge conflicts; I dont know how will hooks tolerate this.

answer Apr 2, 2015 by Daler
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