From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:48:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Deprecate git-cherry
Message-ID: <7vmyy9dzrr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707061722020.4093@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> A cleaner alternative was introduced in v1.5.2~185^2~1, which not only
> allows you to list the commits, but to inspect them, too:
>
> 	git log --cherry-pick <upstream>...[<head>]
>
> There is a functional difference, though: git cherry shows both 
> directions, <upstream>...<head> and <head>...<upstream>, and prefixes
> the commits with '+' and '-', respectively.
>
> 'git rev-list --cherry-pick <upstream>...[<head>]' only shows one 
> direction, and does not prefix the commits.

Eh, --left-right anybody?

git-cherry is used by people's scripts, and I do not think
deprecating is an option at least in the short term.