From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martin.von.zweigbergk@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:38:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] cherry-pick/revert: add support for -X/--strategy-option
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1012271630560.788@debian>
In-Reply-To: <20101227212515.GA32352@burratino>

On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> > For example, this would allow cherry-picking or reverting patches from
> > a piece of history with a different end-of-line style, like so:
> > 
> > 	$ git revert -Xrenormalize old-problematic-commit
> > 
> > Currently that is possible with manual use of merge-recursive but the
> > cherry-pick/revert porcelain does not expose the functionality.
> > 
> > While at it, document the existing support for --strategy.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Ping?  I use this with -Xpatience fairly often.  Am I the only one who
> has wanted such a thing?

FWIW, I have wanted it for the end-of-line scenario you describe
above.

/Martin