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Re: git log and cherry-picks

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APAntriksh Pany <antriksh.pany@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 5, 2010, 05:39 UTC
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Well, I typically leave the commit subject (first line) the same even if I make minor modifications to a cherry-picked commit.

If that's the case with you, you can write a basic shell script that looks at the commit message and discards duplicates.

Cheers Antriksh Pany

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Erez Zilber <erezzi.list@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> Erez Zilber venit, vidit, dixit 28.06.2010 18:02:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I saw that I can run git log with '--cherry-pick'. With this, if I run
>>> "git log --cherry-pick branch_a..branch_b", it doesn't show
>>> differences that are caused by cherry picks.
>>>
>>> My question is: sometimes, cherry picking from branch_a to branch_b is
>>> not immediate, and I need to adapt the patch that was committed on
>>> branch_a to apply on branch_b. In other cases, git is able to apply
>>> the patch on branch_b automatically (e.g. if there's only a line
>>> offset). In such cases, will "git log --cherry-pick" ignore these
>>> cherry-picks like it ignores cherry-picks that were applied without
>>> any problem?
>>
>> With --cherry-pick, log omits those commits whose associated patch has
>> the same patch-id (see "git patch-id").
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> Is there another way to get over this (a commit that was cherry-picked
> from branch_a to branch_b and had to be changed to be applied on
> branch_b)?
>
> Thanks,
> Erez
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  1. Erez ZilberJun 28, 2010
  2. Michael J GruberJun 28, 2010
  3. Erez ZilberJun 28, 2010
  4. Antriksh PanyJul 5, 2010

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