Re: Commit cherry-picking

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Alberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I often use darcs, and one feature I miss when I use git is the ability
> > to do cherry-picking on what I'm about to commit.
> 
> Have you tried:
> 
> 	git add -i
> 	git commit
> 
> ?
> 
> The `git add -i` flag starts up an interactive tool that you can use
> to add patch hunks to the index, staging them for the next commit.
> Running commit with no arguments will then commit exactly what is
> in the index, leaving the other hunks beind in the working directory.

Also `git gui` (or `git citool`) offers this hunk selection feature,
but in a Tcl/Tk based GUI format.  The hunk selection isn't as
powerful as I'd like it to be, but it works well enough that I
haven't bothered to improve upon it.
 
> Or did I miss something?  Note that `git add -i` was added as a
> new feature in Git 1.5.0 (and later).

git-gui also shipped in 1.5.0...

-- 
Shawn.