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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: cherry picking changesets instead of commits
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:46:31 -0700
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Geoffrey Irving <geoffrey.irving@gmail.com> writes:

> On May 28, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> "Geoffrey Irving" <irving@naml.us> writes:
>>
>>> Would it be straightforward
>>> to add an option to "git cherry" to ignore differences in metadata?
>>> The cherry documentation doesn't give its criteria for when commits
>>> match, and I'm not familiar enough with the code yet to figure out
>>> those criteria directly from cmd_cherry in builtin-log.c.
>>
>> cherry does not look at metadata at all.  It compares patch-ids.
>
> Can you define what a patch-id is?

$ man git-patch-id