Re: git cherry-pick before archive

From: Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 11, 2008, 16:18 UTC
Message-ID: <6dbd4d000807110918s1187abeaye6f249ff60b650fb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080711161158.GD10347@genesis.frugalware.org>

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:11, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:09:02PM -0400, Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:51, Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> > $ git cherry-pick -n <bla>
>> > $ git archive --format=tar --prefix=pfx/ $(git write-tree) | gzip > prj.tgz
>> > $ git reset
>
> I guess he wanted to write 'git reset --hard' here ;-)

But that will undo local modifications to any uncommitted files, not just those affected by the cherry-pick. I don't want to do that.

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>> Thank you!  This is much better.  The only thing that could improve it
>> is by some way to "un-cherry-pick" the applied change (so that after
>> "git reset" there are no local modifications to the file(s) changed by
>> cherry-picking <bla>).
>>
>> Is there an easy way to invert a patch to undo the change the original
>> patch introduced?
>
> git show <commit> | git apply -R?

Brilliant!  Thanks.  I didn't know about apply (or show for that matter ....).

-- 
 Denis