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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: luuk@pobox.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Difficulty with getting an accurate changelog after cherry-picking and merging.
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:09:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080722210924.GE5113@blimp.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dc909980807221338g707d6104ob8b1534cdf02a77a@mail.gmail.com>

Luuk Paulussen, Tue, Jul 22, 2008 22:38:19 +0200:
> I'm trying to generate an accurate changelog of changes between 2 tags
> on a branch.  There is a merge between these 2 points which includes
> changes that were cherry-picked before the start point.  This causes
> the changelog to show these changes, despite them already existing
> before the start point of the log.

Cherry-picked commits are completely new commits and have no relation
to the original commits whatsoever. Of course, they will be shown.
It is literally a change made again, as if you typed it all in and
committed.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-22 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-22 20:38 Difficulty with getting an accurate changelog after cherry-picking and merging Luuk Paulussen
2008-07-22 21:09 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2008-07-22 21:14 ` Johannes Schindelin

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