[git] Merging 2 branches together in GIT

I've only just started to use GIT and think its wonderful, however I'm a little confused over what the merge command does.

Let us say we have a working project in the branch "A".

I go home and make changes to this branch and save it as "B". Another programmer makes changes to "A" and saves it as "C".

Is there a way to merge the two branches "B" and "C" together, then commit the changes as a new branch, say "D"?

Or am missing the point of 'merge'?

If you want to merge changes in SubBranch to MainBranch

1. you should be on MainBranch git checkout MainBranch
2. then run merge command git merge SubBranch

Case: If you need to ignore the merge commit created by default, follow these steps.

Say, a new feature branch is checked out from master having 2 commits already,

• "Added A" , "Added B"

Checkout a new feature_branch

• "Added C" , "Added D"

Feature branch then adds two commits-->

• "Added E", "Added F"

Now if you want to merge feature_branch changes to master, Do git merge feature_branch sitting on the master.

This will add all commits into master branch (4 in master + 2 in feature_branch = total 6) + an extra merge commit something like 'Merge branch 'feature_branch'' as the master is diverged.

If you really need to ignore these commits (those made in FB) and add the whole changes made in feature_branch as a single commit like 'Integrated feature branch changes into master', Run git merge feature_merge --no-commit.

With --no-commit, it perform the merge and stop just before creating a merge commit, We will have all the added changes in feature branch now in master and get a chance to create a new commit as our own.

Read here for more : https://git-scm.com/docs/git-merge