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From: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "C.J. Jameson" <cjcjameson@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cherry-pick: set default `--mainline` parent to 1
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:01:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s31vjo7.fsf@javad.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1s32w3vu.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:45:09 +0900")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

[...]

> But I do have a very strong opinion against adding yet another
> option that takes an optional argument.  If we want to allow
> cherry-picking a merge commit just as easy as cherrry-picking a
> single-parent commit, "git cherry-pick -m merge" (assuming 'merge'
> is the tip of a branch that is a merge commit) that still requires
> the user to say "-m" is not a good improvement.  We should just
> accept "git cherry-pick merge" without any "-m" if we want to move
> in this direction, I would think.

Let's just make '-m 1' the default option indeed. No need for further
complexities.

Exactly according to what Junio has already said before. Here:

https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqsh5gt9sm.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com

Junio wrote:

> Now, it appears, at least to me, that the world pretty much accepted
> that the first-parent worldview is often very convenient and worth
> supporting by the tool, so the next logical step might be to set
> opts->mainline to 1 by default (and allow an explicit "-m $n" from
> the command line to override it).  But that should happen after this
> patch lands---it is logically a separate step, I would think.

... and as that patch already landed...

-- Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-20 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-20  3:54 [RFC PATCH] cherry-pick: set default `--mainline` parent to 1 C.J. Jameson
2019-03-20  4:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-20 12:01   ` Sergey Organov [this message]
2019-03-20 14:39     ` Elijah Newren
2019-03-20 15:59       ` Sergey Organov
2019-03-21  1:51         ` C.J. Jameson
2019-03-21  2:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-21  3:15         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-21  5:40           ` Sergey Organov
2019-03-21  5:47             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-21  6:12               ` Sergey Organov
2019-03-21  8:31                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-21  8:31                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-21 11:59                   ` Sergey Organov
2019-03-22  2:24                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-03-22 15:22                       ` Sergey Organov
2019-03-22 18:27                         ` C.J. Jameson
2019-03-25 14:55                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-03-25 15:41                             ` C.J. Jameson
2019-03-21  6:54               ` Sergey Organov
2019-03-22 10:23         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-03-22 10:13       ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-03-20  9:44 ` Duy Nguyen

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