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Re: how to keeping track of cherry-pick?

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KBKnut Olav Bøhmer <knut-olav.bohmer@telenor.com>
Date
Jan 21, 2009, 08:44 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Knut Olav Bøhmer <knut-olav.bohmer@telenor.com> writes:
> 
>> svnmerge.py can give us a list of revisions available for merging. The
>> result is similar to "git log --chery-pick master..dev" The difference
>> is that svnmerge.py operates on revision-numbers, and --chery-pick looks
>> at the diffs. The result of that is that when we get a conflict when a
>> patch is cherry-picked, it will still show up as "available" when I run
>> "git log --cherry-pick master..dev"
> 
> I think you are looking at it a wrong way.
> 
> Because subversion (at least the older one) does not keep track of merges,
> you had to track cherry-picks.  But cherry-pick is not how you usually do
> things in git.  You keep many topic branches with different doneness, and
> you merge well-cooked ones to the more stable integration branch while
> leaving others still cooking.  So what you want to know is not cherry-pick
> status, but merge status.

I was afraid I would get this answer. I know that you change your workflow when you migrate to git, but I was looking for a way to resolve the situation we are in, due to our old vcs.

-- 
Knut Olav Bøhmer
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  2. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2009
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  5. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2009
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