Originally Martin's tree was based on "next", which meant that all
the other things that I am not ready to push out to "master" were
contained in it. His changes looked good, and I wanted to have them
in "master".
So, here is what I did:
- fetch Martin's tree into a temporary topic branch.
$ git fetch $URL $remote:ml/cvsserver
$ git checkout ml/cvsserver
- rebase it on top of "master".
$ git rebase --onto master next
- pull that master into "next", recording Martin's head as well.
$ git pull --append . master
Since I have apply.whitespace=strip in my configuration file, the
rebased cvsserver changes have trailing whitespaces introduced by
Martin's tree cleansed out. Hence the above conflicts.
The reason I made this octopus is to make sure that next time Martin
pulls from my "next" branch, it results in a fast forward. There is
no reason to force him do the same conflict resolution I did with this
merge.