Re: git cherry-pick --continue?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 11, 2010, 23:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20100211235702.GA21930@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <76718491002111505u2935381erc376cea862e15801@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 06:05:18PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >  Automatic cherry-pick failed.  After resolving the conflicts,
> >  mark the corrected paths with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
> >  and commit the result with:
> >
> >          git commit -c HEAD~23
> >
> 
> Blech, how is this an improvement? Why can't I just say "git
> cherry-pick --continue"?

Because nobody has implemented it yet. ;P

The two improvements here are:

  1. We show what you typed as "git cherry-pick $X", so if you want to
     re-type it, you know it is just "git commit -c $X". This is not
     about speed, but about being more sensible for users to read.

  2. The output is now cut-and-pasteable, so you don't have to type it
     if it is still available in your terminal.

These were meant to make the situation better than it was; I agree that "git cherry-pick --continue" would be better still.

-Peff