From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:05:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow cherry-picking root commits
Message-ID: <7vzlovq0t6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807041617320.9925@racer>

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

> There is no good reason why cherry-picking root commits should not be 
> allowed.

Hmm, does "cherry-pick a root commit" even have a well defined semantics,
other than "if there is no overlap in files just add the files in"?  I
have a feeling that it is more likely to be a user error, a sign that the
user mistyped the name of the commit to pick.