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Re: cherry picking changesets instead of commits

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 28, 2008, 18:19 UTC
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"Geoffrey Irving" <irving@naml.us> writes:
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> Would it be straightforward
> to add an option to "git cherry" to ignore differences in metadata?
> The cherry documentation doesn't give its criteria for when commits
> match, and I'm not familiar enough with the code yet to figure out
> those criteria directly from cmd_cherry in builtin-log.c.
cherry does not look at metadata at all.  It compares patch-ids.
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  5. Geoffrey IrvingMay 28, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  7. Geoffrey IrvingMay 28, 2008
  8. Jeff KingMay 28, 2008
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  10. Junio C HamanoMay 28, 2008
  11. Jeff KingMay 29, 2008
  12. Documentation: git-cherry uses git-patch-idJunio C Hamano, May 29, 2008
  13. Geoffrey IrvingMay 29, 2008

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