Re: cherry-pick applies some other changes than the specified one?

From: Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 21, 2011, 20:07 UTC
Message-ID: <4D87B00D.2010905@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110321195846.GA4277@elie>

W dniu 21.03.2011 20:58, Jonathan Nieder pisze:

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> Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
> 
>> I think I even suspected this might have something to do with the merge
>> conflict and tried to make git-diff show me exact change between working
>> tree and index/HEAD (ignoring the merge), so I can verify the file indeed
>> only have the change I did, but I could not find such option.
>> Does it exists? 
> 
> Sure.  The index contains multiple competing versions, which you can
> see with "git ls-files -u".  To compare the working tree and one of
> those use "git diff --base / --ours / --theirs" (or -1 / -2 / -3).

Thanks, didn't know about that (and it's not documented in diff man page).

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> To view changes relative to a particular commit, use "git diff <commit>".
> For example, "git diff HEAD".  The git-diff(1) manpage (shown by
> "git diff --help") explains.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan

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Piotr Krukowiecki