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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Tajti Ákos" <akos.tajti@intland.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git cherry doesn't list a merge commit
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:57:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vaa4mfto2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F392976.9070009@intland.com> ("Tajti Ákos"'s message of "Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:17:10 +0100")

Tajti Ákos <akos.tajti@intland.com> writes:

> However, the manual of git cherry says:
> "*Every* commit that doesn’t exist in the <upstream> branch has its
> id (sha1) reported, prefixed by a symbol. The ones that have
> equivalent change already in the <upstream> branch are prefixed with a
> minus (-) sign"

The sole purpose of the command is to decide which commits in the existing
history to run "format-patch" on to feed the output to "am" to update the
other history, and it was clear for both readers and the author of the
documentation that a "commit" meant a "non-merge commit" in that context.

A patch to rephrase it to "every non-merge commit" for clarity may not be
useless, though.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-13 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-13 15:17 git cherry doesn't list a merge commit Tajti Ákos
2012-02-13 18:57 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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