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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Cc: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-cherry-pick: improve description of -x.
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:19:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071020031917.GR14735@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071019211152.GN3917@planck.djpig.de>

Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 07:41:34PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Further, I am surprised that -x seems to be nonfunctional when the
> > cherry pick introduces a conflict.  Example:
> [...]
> > The prototype commit message now does not contain the
> > | (cherry picked from commit ...).
> > 
> > Is that by design (because there were conflicts) or an omission?
> > In case of the former, maybe the description of -x should mention this.
> 
> git commit currently doesn't know that you commit a cherry-pick. The -c
> only says to use the commit message of the original commit. So this is
> currently by design.

Ralf, can you submit an updated version of this patch that describes
the current behavior better, given the "by design" remark above
from Frank?
 
-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-20  3:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-19 17:41 [PATCH] git-cherry-pick: improve description of -x Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-19 21:11 ` Frank Lichtenheld
2007-10-20  3:19   ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-10-21  9:36     ` Ralf Wildenhues
2007-10-22  5:14       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-22  5:19         ` Ralf Wildenhues

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