Build Master: Progress toward 2.065

[Kenji Hara]

On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 15:51:47 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 9 December 2013 at 14:49:05 UTC, Andrew Edwards 
> wrote:
>> 	2) What is the process to update a branch with all changes 
>> master? I will need to do this because a lot of changes have 
>> occurred since the 2.065 branches were created but the actual 
>> betas are not yet prepared. Going forward, this is the only 
>> time this will occur.
>
> If branch does not have own commits to be preserved and needs 
> to just be synced with master state (assuming 
> D-Programming-Language remote is named `upstream`):
>
>    git fetch upstream # download current remote state
>    git checkout 2.065 # go to release branch
>    git reset --hard upstream/master # make it identical to 
> current master
>    git push -f origin 2.065 # update own fork
>    git push -f upstream 2.065 # update branch in core repos, 
> careful here!
>
> I can't imagine any other case when one may want to update 
> release branch from master so it must the what you need.

Note that, at least phobos repository already has some own 
commits in 2.065 branch.

Kenji Hara