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Re: multiple-commit cherry-pick?

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Nov 7, 2008, 18:08 UTC
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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.

		Linus
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  11. Miles BaderNov 7, 2008
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  13. Junio C HamanoNov 7, 2008
  14. Alex RiesenNov 7, 2008
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