Re: [ANNOUNCE] pg - A patch porcelain for GIT

> Karl Hasselström wrote:
>
> > You can actually do this today; just create a new branch where you
> > want your new stgit stack to be based, and "stg pick" the
> > commits/patches from the old branch:
> >
> >   $ git-checkout -b new-branch HEAD^^^
> >   $ stg init
> >   $ stg pick old-branch^^^ -n create-foo
> >   $ stg pick old-branch^^ -n improve-foo
> >   $ stg pick old-branch^ -n improve-bar
> >   $ git-branch -D old-branch
> >   $ git-checkout -b old-branch
> >   $ git-branch -d new-branch
> >
> > This series of commands also converts the top three commits to
> > stgit patches, and leaves the user on the same branch where she
> > started (it does _exactly_ the same job as "stg uncommit
> > improve-bar improve-foo create-foo"), but it's a lot of work, and
> > a typo could lose commits.
>
> Isn't this akin to what "git cherry-pick" does, except for the
> "convert to stgit patches" thing?