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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Subject: Re: JGIT: discuss: diff/patch implementation
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:52:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081110205242.GH2932@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v63mv5mro.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net> writes:
> 
> > A very nice git feature, without even going as far as merges, is the cherry 
> > pick feature.
> 
> I thought cherry-picking needs to be done in terms of 3-way merge, not
> diff piped to patch, for correctness's sake.

Yea, the 3-way merge cherry-pick is better.  But in a pinch you
can (usually) get correct results from a "diff | patch" pipeline.
Of course that doesn't always work, resulting in patches that don't
apply cleanly, or worse, that apply at the wrong place silently.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-10 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-10 14:22 JGIT: discuss: diff/patch implementation Francis Galiegue
2008-11-10 15:56 ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-11-10 16:16   ` Francis Galiegue
2008-11-10 16:59     ` Robin Rosenberg
2008-11-10 18:11       ` Francis Galiegue
2008-11-10 19:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-10 20:21   ` Francis Galiegue
2008-11-10 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-10 20:52   ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-11-10 21:31     ` Francis Galiegue
2008-11-10 23:37   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-11 10:06   ` Raimund Bauer
2008-11-11 17:18     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-11 17:31       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-11-11  7:27 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-11-11 17:13   ` Shawn O. Pearce

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