Re: User's mailing list? And multiple cherry pick

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 4, 2008, 07:39 UTC
Message-ID: <m3r6bdzm22.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <18c1e6480806032355q2002fe0ej1f37dbd7dbd4802b@mail.gmail.com>

David <wizzardx@gmail.com> writes:

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> I've tried Googling for these, and checked the FAQ.
> 
> 1) Is there a separate Git Users mailing list or FAQ?
> 
> So that git noobs like myself don't bother the developers directly :-)
> Also so that non-git-developer users who want to help other users
> don't get a lot of mails with patches & git internal development
> discussions.

There is Git User's mailing list ("Git for human beings", heh)
  git-users@googlegroups.com
  http://groups.google.com/group/git-users
  nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git.user
 
There is GitFaq at Git Wiki:
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq

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> 2) Is it possible to cherry pick multiple patches?
> 
> Sometimes git rebase isn't appropriate, and it's a pain to do multiple
> 'git-cherry-pick' commands. Here is my current recipe:
> 
> 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?

 $ git rebase --onto
 $ git rebase --onto --interactive

(if you want to copy, just create new branch using "git branch", or something).

Why can't you simply use merge, BTW?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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