From: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:16:18 GMT
Subject: git cherry could honour "cherry-picked from commit" messages?
Message-ID: <20131007201617.GC31277@pacific.linksys.moosehall>

Currently git cherry determines whether a commit has been merged
upstream by calculating its patch-id and looking for that in the
upstream branch.  Is there any reason why it couldn't also look for
"(cherry picked from commit ...)" lines which are automatically added
by cherry-pick's -x switch?  This would combat the blind spot in
cherry's current approach concerning the case where the patch-id is
changed by the cherry-picking process (e.g. when the diff context
changes).

Most likely there would be good reasons to make such behaviour
optional (e.g. via git-config), but it seems like a waste for cherry
to complete ignore these lines which provide useful information.

Thanks,
Adam