From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 18:19:56 GMT
Subject: Re: cherry picking changesets instead of commits
Message-ID: <7v1w3muw8j.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7f9d599f0805281106w746a0469u6c483d64cf75b823@mail.gmail.com>

"Geoffrey Irving" <irving@naml.us> writes:

> 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.