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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git rebase to move a batch of patches onto the current branch
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:13:33 +0200
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Avery Pennarun, Thu, Jul 24, 2008 21:57:03 +0200:
> I often find myself being on a branch and wanting to do the equivalent
> of a series of cherry-picks from another branch into the current one.
> Unfortunately, "git cherry-pick" only does one patch at a time (which
> is very tedious), and "git rebase", which is much less tedious to use,
> seems to specializing in applying your current branch on top of
> another branch, not the other way around.

Try this:

    $ type gcp3
    gcp3 is a function
    gcp3 ()
    {
	git format-patch -k --stdout --full-index "$@" | git am -k -3 --binary
    }