[Insight-developers] Merge branched in gerrit

[Bill Lorensen]

Luis,

I noticed several merge branches for this topic:
http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,2826

Usually we don't do merge branches here. I typically cherry pick the
topic onto a recently pulled master. Then I do a
git commit -a --amend
git gerrit-push

or
git check master
git pullall
git checkput "your_topic"
git rebase master
git commit -a --amend
git gerrit-push


This retains the same change-id

What is the motivation for doing the merges this way?

Bill