From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:51:52 GMT
Subject: Re: How to manage merges from one line while excluding its merges from another
Message-ID: <20100626005151.GA12401@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <4C254B62.6020108@brooks.nu>

Lane Brooks wrote:

> I'll take a look at your suggested cherry-pick script. Can it be
> rerun multiple times or is it run one-time only. In others, as
> 'devel' continues to grow can I run it again and will it cherry-pick
> intelligently or will it try to reapply commits already
> cherry-picked?

Good point.

  git cherry my devel main |
  grep -v ^- |
  while read mark rev
  do
	git cherry-pick $rev ||
	{
		echo >&2 cherry-pick failed
		break
	}
 done

I hadn’t known about the third argument to ‘git cherry’ before.
Thanks for the example.