Re: multiple-commit cherry-pick?

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 10, 2008, 20:24 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0811101224gcffc958o6dbfcdc45e022874@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811102054470.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

2008/11/10 Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>:

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> On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:
>>
>> Oh, I am. But it is just so convenient to have range support for
>> commands which just show commits. Besides, git-show just errors out,
>> instead of producing the commits like git-log does.
>
> Have fun implementing the support, and then explaining to users why this
> shows only one commit:
>
>        git show HEAD^..HEAD HEAD~10
>

for cs in HEAD^..HEAD HEAD~10; do
  case "$cs"; in
  *..*)
     git format-patch --stdout "$cs"
     ;;
  *)
     git show --pretty=email "$cs"
     ;;
  esac
done

At least, this is what I have in mind and how I expect it to work.