Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/4] revert: allow cherry-picking a range of commits

[Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>]

On Saturday 29 May 2010 17:27:01 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> writes:
> > This makes it possible to pass a range of commits like A..B
> > to "git cherry-pick" and to "git revert" to process many
> > commits instead of just one.
> >
> > @@ -545,6 +542,40 @@ static int revert_or_cherry_pick(int argc, const
> > char **argv) if (read_cache() < 0)
> >  		die("git %s: failed to read the index", me);
> >
> > +	dotdot = strstr(commit_name, "..");
> > +	if (dotdot) {
> > +		struct rev_info revs;
> > +		const char *argv[4];
> > +		int argc = 0;
> > +
> > +		argv[argc++] = NULL;
> > +		if (action != REVERT)
> > +			argv[argc++] = "--reverse";
> > +		argv[argc++] = commit_name;
> > +		argv[argc++] = NULL;
> > +
> > +		init_revisions(&revs, NULL);
> 
> The goal of the series is a worthy one, but I would imagine people would
> want to run these while on "maint":
> 
>     git cherry-pick master~2..master
>     git cherry-pick master^ master
> 
> or even
> 
>     git cherry-pick -2 master
> 
> How about enumerating the commits with an equivalent of
> 
>     git rev-list --no-walk "$@"
> 
> as an alternative implementation?

I agree that it would be nice, but I am not sure it would allow using "-2 
master" as arguments because "--no-walk" seems to take over "-2": 

$ git rev-list --no-walk -2 master
81fa024cd8e336ba257f13fe7724b95baacfa3ad
$

> The current behaviour would fall out just as a natural special case
> because
> 
>     git rev-list --no-walk $commit == $commit
> 
> Hmm?

Yes, I will provide an updated patch series using the equivalent of '--no-walk 
"$@"' but arguments like "-2 master" will not work.

Thanks,
Christian.