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Re: [RFC] Terms to add to glossary

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 2, 2006, 07:03 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> cherry-picking::
>       In SCM jargon, "cherry pick" means to choose a subset of
>       changes out of a series of changes (typically commits)
>       and record them as a separate series of changes on top
>       of different codebase.  In GIT, this is performed by
>       "git cherry-pick" command to extract the change
>       introduced by an existing commit and to record it based
>       on the tip of the current branch as a new commit.
That's better.
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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