From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:34:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] revert: add --ff option to allow fast forward when cherry-picking
Message-ID: <4B936500.9020005@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v6358dbv8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 03/07/2010 04:55 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> What was the real motive/use case of "cherry-pick --ff"?

Avoiding pointless separation of histories.  It's true that nowadays 
git-patch-id will make a good job of reconciling them, but they do look 
ugly in gitk.

Paolo