From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:25:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] cherry-pick/revert: add support for -X/--strategy-option
Message-ID: <20101227212515.GA32352@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20101211005144.GA6634@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> For example, this would allow cherry-picking or reverting patches from
> a piece of history with a different end-of-line style, like so:
> 
> 	$ git revert -Xrenormalize old-problematic-commit
> 
> Currently that is possible with manual use of merge-recursive but the
> cherry-pick/revert porcelain does not expose the functionality.
> 
> While at it, document the existing support for --strategy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> ---
> Thoughts?

Ping?  I use this with -Xpatience fairly often.  Am I the only one who
has wanted such a thing?