Re: [PATCH] cherry-pick: Add an option to prepend a string to the commit message

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 14, 2010, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk4q1a3ud.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100612071850.GA2765@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

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> +git checkout maint &&
> +git cherry-pick -n bugfix &&
> +git add new_file.txt &&
> +git show -s bugfix --format='%s%n%n%b%n%nAlso add a new file.' |
> +git commit -F -

This is cute, I somehow doubt any sane person would prefer doing the above over running "git commit" and fixing it up with the editor for a single commit.

It is completely a different matter if the above were in a loop that munges many commits, though. But if that is the case, the example should probably illustrate that loop as well.