Re: Rebase semantic and cherry-pick

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mar 30, 2006, 02:54 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603291852140.27203@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtec7j37.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps if possible also have
> >
> > git cherry-pick --whole-branch branchname
> >
> > meaning
> >
> > git cherry-pick branchname:begining..branchname:HEAD
> 
> There is no branchname:beginning in git.

Well, in this case you don't need it. You just do

	git cherry-pick HEAD..branch

and it just magically does the right thing.

For consistency reasons, we should probably allow that to be written as just "..branch", the same way we can write "branch.." to mean "everything in HEAD but not in "branch".

		Linus