From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:45:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Make new builtin cherry match documentation for "+" and "-"
Message-ID: <200610260845.23850.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk62ob5mp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wednesday 2006 October 25 19:41, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > "+" 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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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE