Re: [PATCH 2/2] cherry-pick: fix --quit not deleting CHERRY_PICK_HEAD

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 15, 2018, 17:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqlg97ilfh.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8CkXRc9NXRHt3a7=v04to0bMTvZo9x7zYNZWPiGDKQqdg@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:26 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Please do not hide this bugfix behind 1/2 that is likely to require
>> longer to cook than the fix itself.   And more importantly, it makes
>> it impossible to merge down the fix to the maintenance track, as I
>> do not think we'd want to merge 1/2 there.
>
> Oh sorry I did not think about that. Will drop 1/2 and send 2/2 as
> standalone. But for the record, I think this has been a bug since the
> introduction of --quit in this command (back when it was still called
> --reset).

If this bug has been there longer, it is a reason why we may want to ensure that the fix applies to even older maintenance tracks.

Thanks.