From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] add --ff option to cherry-pick Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:45:46 -0800 Message-ID: <7vtytvnt5h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20100205231028.3689.12228.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Johannes Schindelin , Stephan Beyer , Daniel Barkalow , Paolo Bonzini , Stephen Boyd To: Christian Couder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 06 00:46:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NdXsN-0003cb-9l for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:46:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933961Ab0BEXqI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:46:08 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:46618 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933483Ab0BEXqH (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:46:07 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 632BE97B53; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:46:06 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=HO+PexFKWipLLbaZrHOZ5ibML7s=; b=tR1WVU HeFTtCyYiwmN/Ya61h/SEVavgput1lmyTFemPTuTD2tvOygsVxo2M6LxHlLqiD6b 6/WgUsNPiKrEnuiSbAmIIFBzVjbhhcK6aahWayZlD/enOAhDOWEHqsgvYXwHZGGz gD74OfENoAw83fNV9QcOR9TQXwdvP53y1guYY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=svNBckBdQPtwTpvT7f3hMuh06FBEXG3L rpK4nmhNgU5ZIiXtrJuyOjgHYE1c1C849g2vixgelLgVzhqeKgTvbLlpH8lDx9l3 bKx4qwD6hiTYKk25doXsxo/a2Hem0fFtpBGVj5rBwJx7ZhVD77HJ08T11zoX9NxM Mj8vlCWgqkk= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9557397B52; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:45:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 40EB497B4C; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:45:48 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20100205231028.3689.12228.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (Christian Couder's message of "Sat\, 06 Feb 2010 00\:11\:02 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 9B7105EA-12B0-11DF-9CE8-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Christian Couder writes: > Changes since the previous series are the following: Could you please briefly describe what good does "adding -ff option to cherry-pick" do in the first place? IOW, help reviewers to convince themselves that it is worth allocating a block of time to read through a 9 patch series. That is what the cover letter is for. Thanks.