From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:05:07 GMT
Subject: Re: User's mailing list? And multiple cherry pick
Message-ID: <m3mym1zkus.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <18c1e6480806040013l72da09aem30f91183e4fcbe41@mail.gmail.com>

David <wizzardx@gmail.com> writes:

[Please don't remove quote attributions]

>>> for C in $(git log --reverse <commit1>..<commit2> --pretty=format:%H);
>>> do git-cherry-pick $C; done
>>>
>>> Is there an easier syntax for doing this?
>>
>> rebase --onto?
>>
> 
> Thanks, I checked the manuals further, and it looks like this will
> (mostly) do what I need.
> 
> What's still missing is multiple cherry pick ;-)
> 
> In other words, is there a simple way to *copy* a large number of
> commits from one branch to another, without rebasing?

 # make temporary branch to not move to-be-copied during rebase
  $ git checkout -b tmp-rebase to-be-copied
 # copy commits; results are in just created temporary branch
  $ git rebase --onto branch copy-from tmp-rebase
 # check if everything is all right and rename temporary branch
 # to final name
  $ git branch -M tmp-rebase branch

That said, cherry-picking multiple commits is often requested feature.
I guess that git-sequencer GSoC 2008 project would help in having it
finally implemented.  BTW. why can't you use topic branches and
merging?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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