Re: cherry picking several patches at once

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 01:57 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> Have you tried something like:
>> git format-patch old-base --full-diff -- /path
>> git am -3 *.patch
>
> yes, sure that can be done, but the idea is to avoid having
> format-patch, switch branches and git am those patches ;-)

When you do a 'git rebase' you are also doing a format-patch/am, but
that happens inside the script; you can write a script that does what
you want in a way that you wouldn't notice it: save the old branch,
git stash, switch to new branch, generate the patches, apply the
patches, switch back to the old branch, git stash pop.

>> I think that would not be possible because of the challenges when
>> dealing with conflicts.
>
> there shouldn't be any. I have the same driver internally and publicly
> and would be cherry-picking only the patches for that particular driver.

Ok, in that case we would just need a cherry-pick that can commit to a
separate branch, however I don't think git internals allow that kind
of thing.

-- 
Felipe Contreras