Re: qgit idea: interface for cherry-picking

> Marco Costalba wrote:
>
> > What do you think about this:
> >
> > When dropping the selected commits, instead of creating new commits,
> > appears a message box with something like "Do you want to apply the
> > commits on top of your current branch or on your working directory?"
> >
> > Sounds good for you? Or you still prefer the context menu?
> > In the latter case, if I have understood correctly, you are limited to
> > cherry-pick among branches and/or working directory of the _same_
> > repository.
>
> Yes, git-cherry-pick works only between commits in the same repository,
> as it use merge (first "simple", i.e. git-read-tree -m -u --aggresive, if
> fails tries "automatic" i.e. git-merge-index -o git-merge-one-file -a, then
> git-write-tree), as opposed to git-format-patch and git-am or git-apply,
> which can work across repositories.
>
> What I really want is "no-commit" of drag'n'dropped, or exported and applied
> commits/patches (although interface to cherry-pick would be nice, even if
> cherry-pick is limited), so I'd like message box with "Do you want to
> commit selected patches?" when dropping commits, or something like that.
> Unfortunately git-am doesn't have --no-commit flag, but one could emulate it
> with git-reset after git-am a patch, I think.
>