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Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] Teach commit to handle CHERRY_HEAD automatically

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Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 16, 2011, 00:03 UTC
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I meant the following sequence of operations:
>
>        # by the way, does this set CHERRY_PICK_HEAD?
>        git cherry-pick --no-commit F
>        git commit -C F-prime

CHERRY_PICK_HEAD is not written if you use --no-commit. I'm going to punt here and say that's not my itch, thus...

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> But that was a silly example --- -C takes care of authorship on its
> own.  A better example might be
>
>        git cherry-pick --no-commit F
>        git commit -F the-message
>
> or
>
>        git cherry-pick --no-commit F
>        git commit --amend -C F-prime

Because CHERRY_PICK_HEAD wasn't written, commit in this case behaves as it did before this series.

j.
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Message 17 of 27 in “CHERRY_HEAD”
  1. 0/2 CHERRY_HEADJay Soffian, Feb 15, 2011
  2. 1/2 Introduce CHERRY_HEADJay Soffian, Feb 15, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2011
  4. Jonathan NiederFeb 15, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2011
  6. Bert WesargFeb 15, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2011
  8. Bert WesargFeb 15, 2011
  9. Jay SoffianFeb 15, 2011
  10. Jonathan NiederFeb 15, 2011
  11. 2/2 Teach commit to handle CHERRY_HEAD automaticallyJay Soffian, Feb 15, 2011
  12. Jay SoffianFeb 15, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2011
  14. Jonathan NiederFeb 15, 2011
  15. Jay SoffianFeb 15, 2011
  16. Jonathan NiederFeb 15, 2011
  17. Jay SoffianFeb 16, 2011
  18. Jonathan NiederFeb 16, 2011
  19. Documentation: clarify interaction of --reset-author with --authorJonathan Nieder, Feb 16, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 16, 2011
  21. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 15, 2011
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2011
  23. Jay SoffianFeb 15, 2011
  24. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 15, 2011
  25. Jay SoffianFeb 15, 2011
  26. Miles BaderFeb 16, 2011
  27. Christian CouderFeb 17, 2011

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