From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:30:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-post: the opposite of git-cherry-pick
Message-ID: <d3ccfb02-004a-bbc3-af33-967db280c940@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACUQV593kzMrtc4ENgD=6bBQcn0DXGRcyB7teCvGWk_QNtS98Q@mail.gmail.com>

Am 17.10.2017 um 01:01 schrieb Rafael Ascensao:
>> This is worth discussing, though not my preference. The picture to "pick
>> cherries" has become quite common, and now that we use it for the name of
>> the command, "cherry-pick", the direction of flow is quite obvious and
>> strongly implied: from somewhere else to me (and not to somebody else).
> 
> What if we borrow '--onto' from rebase and make it cherry-pick --onto
> <destination>?

I actually like this. Although I would miss the convenience that the 
source defaults to HEAD. Unless we make a special case for --onto, that 
is, of course.

-- Hannes