Re: multiple-commit cherry-pick?

> Linus Torvalds, Fri, Nov 07, 2008 19:08:36 +0100:
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Does not work if there are ranges given :-/
> > > It'd be very nice to have: git show #c1..$c2 $c3 $c4 $c5..$c6
> > 
> > Yeah, we've very fundamentally never supported that. Not for show, but 
> > also not for anything else (ie "gitk a..b c..d" does _not_ give you 
> > two ranges).
> > 
> > It's easy to see why once you understand what 'a..b' really means (ie 
> > it just expands to '^a' and 'b'), and how it's not really a "range" 
> > operation as much as a set operation that interacts with all the other 
> > arguments too. But unless you're very aware of that, it can be 
> > surprising.
> > 
> 
> Oh, I am. But it is just so convenient to have range support for 
> commands which just show commits. Besides, git-show just errors out, 
> instead of producing the commits like git-log does.