It should work, however you could do it in a simpler way:
directly from branch 2012B
:
git fetch origin
git merge origin/2012A
Note that you are not required to have a local branch for 2012A
: if have a repository in your remotes (here your remote is origin
) you usually carry the snapshots of the remote branches. You can see them by running:
git branch -a
(See the remotes/...
entries of the output)
The git fetch
command updates the snapshots, so git fetch origin
updates your local images of the remote branches in origin
, and git merge origin/2012A
merges such image into the current branch (i.e. applies the patches of origin/2012A
on 2012B
).
Suggested article:
http://longair.net/blog/2009/04/16/git-fetch-and-merge/