Re: gtk3 and master double patches should better be applied to master and then merged

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:46:20PM +0200, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
> some of the recent patches are applied both to master and gtk3 branch. After 
> a merge from master to gtk3 they are still doubled. This
> is different when a patch is applied only to master and then merged to gtk3. 
> Below is the gitk view of the project. You see the recent double applied 
> patches twice while the merged SCATTERPLOT patch is mentionend only once.

It's not normally a problem for a patch to apply in two branches.
Usually, Git successfully merges the two branches later.

That said, applying to one branch, then merging to the other, often
works just as well.