From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:22:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Mixing cherry-pick and merge
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708291422020.28586@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070829131439.GA31212@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Hi,

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:

> On 2007-08-29 14:05:55 +0200, Michel Marti wrote:
> 
> > I just merged from a branch from which I previously cherry-picked some 
> > commits and now the log contains the already cherry-picked commits 
> > twice (which is rather confusing). Is this a bug or a feature?
> 
> It's an inevitable consequence of git's design. When you cherry-pick a 
> commit, you create a (maybe slightly modified) copy of it with different 
> ancestry. If you then merge a branch that contains the original commit, 
> you will get both the original and the copy as ancestors of your new 
> merge commit.

I guess that people are not even aware that they can rebase with Git.  
Sounds like a perfect use case to me.

Ciao,
Dscho