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Re: [PATCH RFC] rebase: add --revisions flag

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Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Dec 9, 2009, 08:47 UTC
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Junio C Hamano:
> Many people wanted to have "pick many commits onto the current HEAD" and I 
> think it would be a natural, uncontroversial and welcome addition to allow 
> "git cherry-pick A..B".

Or even "git cherry-pick branch", as I naïvely tried doing before I understood what it did. This is definitely a feature that would help me.

The question of where it goes is actually a bit difficult, it is the same mode of operation as "git rebase", only the other way around. It is the same as "git cherry-pick", but called multiple times. And it is the same as "git merge --squash", but without squashing the commits into one.

So does this new mode go into rebase, cherry-pick or merge, or into all three? No matter which, proper documentation is needed.

Maybe this could also be used to implement a "git merge --squash A..B", a.k.a a "partial merge". (And if it could be implemented to allow a "git merge A..B" and later do a "git merge B" to merge the rest of the side-branch, that would be interesting).

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  13. Michael S. TsirkinDec 9, 2009
  14. Miles BaderDec 9, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2009
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  19. Sverre RabbelierDec 9, 2009
  20. Peter KreftingDec 9, 2009
  21. Michael S. TsirkinDec 9, 2009
  22. Peter KreftingDec 9, 2009
  23. Björn SteinbrinkDec 9, 2009
  24. Andreas SchwabDec 9, 2009
  25. Björn SteinbrinkDec 9, 2009
  26. Michael S. TsirkinDec 9, 2009
  27. Björn SteinbrinkDec 9, 2009
  28. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2009
  29. Björn SteinbrinkDec 10, 2009
  30. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2009
  31. Björn SteinbrinkDec 11, 2009
  32. Peter KreftingDec 9, 2009
  33. Björn SteinbrinkDec 9, 2009
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  36. Michael S. TsirkinDec 9, 2009
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  39. Michael S. TsirkinDec 9, 2009
  40. Björn SteinbrinkDec 9, 2009
  41. Michael S. TsirkinDec 9, 2009
  42. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2009
  43. David KågedalDec 13, 2009

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