From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:06:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] cherry-pick ignores some arguments
Message-ID: <7v62asd379.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120615091425.20e40af9@chalon.bertin.fr>

Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> writes:

> Another orthogonal UI issue I see, is that rev-list could be more
> user-friendly to warn the user when one element of a rev list is
> ignored because of another one.

Sometimes my maint-1.7.8 branch may still have commits that are not
in maint branch, sometimes maint-1.7.9 branch is a true subset of
maint branch. "rev-list ^maint maint-1.7.8 maint-1.7.9" is a very
sensible thing to ask to find out what is still not in 'maint' out
of stuff that are _usually_ but not always part of 'maint'.

Complaining on such a query is not user-friendly at all.