Re: How to create a new commit with the content of some commit?

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: May 13, 2009, 14:36 UTC
Message-ID: <slrnh0lmmv.5j5.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <83048193-FBD1-4D14-9CC9-B95BD08C67F7@dbservice.com>

On 2009-05-12, Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote:

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> On May 12, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Ping Yin wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> a----b
>>>  \----c
>>>
>>> Given the graph above, I want to create a commit b1 on top of c,  
>>> where
>>> b1 and b have the same content. i.e.
>>>
>>> a----b
>>>  \----c----b1    ( content(b) == content(b1) )
>>
>> More precisely, b1 and b point to the same tree object
>
> git checkout c
> git cherry-pick b

I do not think this does what was wanted. Applying the change from a->b onto c may not give you "b" unless a==c.