Re: multiple-commit cherry-pick?

From: Deskin Miller <deskinm@umich.edu>
Date: Nov 6, 2008, 03:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20081106032437.GA27237@euler>
In-Reply-To: <buoiqr18tdk.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:45:27AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:

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> Is there any easy way to cherry pick a _range_ of commits from some other
> branch to the current branch, instead of just one?
> 
> I thought maybe git-rebase could be coerced to do this somehow, but I
> couldn't figure a way.

Rebase is exactly what you want.  Given something like this:

o--o--o--A--B--C--o--o--X
    \
     o--o--D

where you want A, B, C to go on top of D:

$ git checkout -b newbranch C $ git rebase --onto D ^A

newbranch will have <...> --D--A--B--C

Hope that helps, Deskin Miller