From: Geoffrey Irving <geoffrey.irving@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 18:28:44 GMT
Subject: Re: cherry picking changesets instead of commits
Message-ID: <190C4133-35C9-4CE0-816B-603B8F661A56@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v1w3muw8j.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On May 28, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> "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