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Why do I need to "Merge into current branch"? #21866
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I’m working on a Java library: Currently I’m the only contributor and all contributions are done to my branch “Daniel”. Every time I do a Pull request from the branch “Daniel” to the master and then merges the changes into the master, I need to do a “Merge into current branch” from master to Daniel, in order to have my branch “Daniel” up to date. https://github.com/danielb987/JavaDiptraceAsciiLib/branches Why do I need to merge my changes back to my branch “Daniel”? Every changes to the master branch is already made to the branch “Daniel”. I’m using GitHub Desktop for git operations. |
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When you merge the pull request into |
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When you merge the pull request into
masterthere’s one commit that you’re missing inDaniel: the one titled “Merge pull request #[number] from [branch name]”. Basically, the standard GitHub Pull Request flow is designed for branches that only live as long as the PR does. Since you are using a long-lived branch model, you have to merge that one commit back each time.