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Re: Make new builtin cherry match documentation for "+" and "-"

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APAndy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 26, 2006, 07:45 UTC
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On Wednesday 2006 October 25 19:41, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > "+" and "-" don't match the documentation, where "+" means the patch /is/
> > in upstream, "-" means it isn't
>
> The documentation was utterly wrong.  The comment at the
> beginning of git-cherry.sh was better but slightly wrong.

Seriously? In git-cherry output a "-" means that a patch is in? Seems counter-intuitive to me.

Or is it meant to be analogous to a diff so "+" means "in order to make this branch like the comparison branch you would have to /add/ this patch"?

Andy
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