Re: How to combine multiple commit diffs?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2023, 17:03 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpm1jg4dk.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAOLTT8RzcENBx9NKffHReVKJAho89TCO7W2SPBX8sb2tEU84Gw@mail.gmail.com>

ZheNing Hu <adlternative@gmail.com> writes:

> This may seem similar to cherry-picking a few commits from a pile of
> commits, but in fact, we do not expect to actually perform
> cherry-picking.

If you said "We do not want to", I may be sympathetic, but it is curious that you said "We do not expect to", which hints that you already have some implementation in mind.

Whether you use a checkout of the history to a working tree and perform a series of "git cherry-pick" to implement it, or use the "git replay" machinery to perform them in-core, at the conceptual level, you would need to pick a base commit and apply the effect of those commits you would want to look at on top of that base in sequence, before you can see the combined change, no?

Puzzled.