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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: multiple-commit cherry-pick?
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:00:46 -0800
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:
>> 
>> git format-patch --full-index --binary --stdout <range...> | git am -3
>> 
>> This will not work if you want to pick a list, not a range, of
>> commits.
>
> Doesn't "--no-walk" + list commits individually work?
>
> So it _should_ be possible to pick a list of commits too. Although I think 
> that git format-patch will reverse the order.

Or "git show --pretty=email $commit1 $commit2" ... piped to "am"?