Re: cherry picking changesets instead of commits
On May 28, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> "Geoffrey Irving" <irving@naml.us> writes:
>
>> Would it be straightforward
>> to add an option to "git cherry" to ignore differences in metadata?
>> The cherry documentation doesn't give its criteria for when commits
>> match, and I'm not familiar enough with the code yet to figure out
>> those criteria directly from cmd_cherry in builtin-log.c.
>
> cherry does not look at metadata at all. It compares patch-ids.
Can you define what a patch-id is?
Geoffrey