From: Geoffrey Irving <irving@naml.us>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:23:24 GMT
Subject: Re: one half of a rebase
Message-ID: <7f9d599f0909111923v76e0f411n16555e7cdc0c3ed1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0909111410k3f3ebfaco393bb37ff5a6b5c1@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Alex Riesen<raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 19:25, Geoffrey Irving <irving@naml.us> wrote:
>> If I could do (2) as a separate operation, it would look something like
>>
>>    git cherry-pick-all topic
>>
>> which is simpler and faster since it avoids switching files back and
>> forth (master to topic and back).  Is there a robust way to achieve
>> the cherry-pick-all semantics with current commands?  If not, how
>> difficult would it be to partition rebase accordingly?
>
> I have this in my .bashrc:
>
> $ gcp3 ()
> {
>    git format-patch -k --stdout --full-index "$@" | git am -k -3 --binary
> }
>
> Then, while on master branch:
>
> $ gcp3 master..topic

Great!  That should work nicely.

Geoffrey