git town merge

git town merge [--dry-run] [-v | --verbose]

The merge command merges the current branch into the branch ahead of it in the current stack.

Consider this stack:

main
 \
  branch-1
   \
    branch-2
     \
*     branch-3
       \
        branch-4

We are on the branch-3 branch. After running git town merge, the stack looks like below, and the new branch-2 branch contains the changes from the old branch-2 and branch-3 branches.

main
 \
  branch-1
   \
*   branch-2
     \
      branch-4

Both branches must be in sync; run git town sync before running git town merge. All affected branches must be owned by you, i.e. not be contribution, observed, or perennial branches.

When using the compress sync strategy, the merged branch will contain two separate commits: one per merged branch. This makes it easy to verify that both branches were merged as expected. To consolidate these commits, run git town sync.

Options

--dry-run

Use the --dry-run flag to test-drive this command. It prints the Git commands that would be run but doesn’t execute them.

-v
--verbose

The --verbose aka -v flag prints all Git commands run under the hood to determine the repository state.