From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:35:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] git-cherry usage: correct nesting of commit-ish options
Message-ID: <20090104173559.GG21154@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <200901041711.23026.markus.heidelberg@web.de>

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:11:22PM +0100, Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:
> Another question: should this patch be split up into two, one for
> maint/master and another for next?

AFAIK sending patches against next is not preferred at all. You should
send your patches against master, or - if you have a strong reason - on
top of a given topic branch.

In the later case I just use to write "This applies on top of
'xx/foo-bar'." between the three dashes and the diffstat.