From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:03:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] Teach commit to handle CHERRY_HEAD automatically
Message-ID: <AANLkTinrQ4hSh-dg6mU=gYi6C8ZWS4eFKbAV=8eucEg2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110215234735.GA18151@elie>

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...

> 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.