From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:39:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Patches exchange is bad?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508162238400.19656@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050816200132.88287.qmail@web26304.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Marco Costalba wrote:

> Suppose a possible scenario involves using a couple of git archives, one 
> for releases and stable code, say MAIN, and one for experimental stuff  
> or new development, say HEAD.
> 
> Suppose there is stuff in HEAD you don't want merged in MAIN, more,
> you need to update MAIN with only a subset of patches in HEAD, peraphs 
> in different order. Or simply, you are not interested to see the history 
> of the HEAD tree when looking MAIN. All this points could keep you 
> from merging.

This looks like a good description of cherry picking. See StGIT (and to a 
certain extent, git-cherry) for that.

Ciao,
Dscho