Re: configuring cherry-pick to always use -x?

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2011, 21:53 UTC
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Not currently, but before we go any further, could you please justify
> in what workflow it would make sense to use -x most of the time?

In one of my repos, most of the time my cherry-picks are between two public branches. Perhaps a better enhancement would be something like:

  branch.<name>.annotate_cherry_pick = {true, false}

which could be set to true for source branches that you wish to default to -x. Or, maybe it makes sense in cases where the source branch is a remote-tracking branch:

   cherry_pick.annotate = {local, remote}

I'm not sure how good a remote-tracking branch is as an indicator of 'public branch', though, so I think explicitly configuring it per-branch makes more sense. I hesitate there only because we don't currently put remote-tracking branches in the branch section names.

j.