From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:59:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Rebase semantic and cherry-pick
Message-ID: <e0fe1h$d5r$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603291102440.15714@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> In contrast, here's an alternate workflow that is much easier to explain,
> and doesn't involve "rebase" at all:
> 
> git checkout his
> git cherry-pick origin..mine
[...] 
> Now, "git cherry-pick" doesn't actually support the above format, and I'm
> not saying that the "git rebase" name itself is evil. I think we could fix
> "git rebase" to work better, but the semantics - the way they are
> _designed_ right now - are just horrible.

Perhaps if possible also have

git cherry-pick --whole-branch branchname

meaning

git cherry-pick branchname:begining..branchname:HEAD

-- 
Jakub Narebski