From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932117AbVHMRQn (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:16:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932221AbVHMRQn (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:16:43 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.40]:21496 "EHLO ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932117AbVHMRQm (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:16:42 -0400 Message-ID: <42FE2B0A.2010305@austin.rr.com> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 12:16:58 -0500 From: Steve French User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: sending selected git changesets from middle of set of cloned tree Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Is there a way to send to mainline requests to pick up selected changesets from the middle of a git tree (another git tree on kernel.org in this case)? I have two changsets (both one line fixes, but reasonably important ones) http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f4cfd69cf349dd27e00d5cf804b57aee04e059c2 and http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ef6724e32142c2d9ca252d423cacc435c142734e without sending the whole tree (which includes another eight changesets some before and some after)? After testing last week at the cifs plugfest, I would like to send these two in particular ASAP but want to wait on the other eight since it is so late in the rc cycle for mainline, and if I send them as diff/patches then I presumably would lose the changeset comments. Is there a way to do a test committ against another git tree of a particular changeset in the middle of one of my trees? Is there a way to update the comment field of a changeset without undoing the whole tree and reapplying each changeset? This comes up a lot when someone opens a bugzilla bug number, after a fix for the problem has already been applied to the git tree. It also would have helped once when I wanted to fix the signed-off line which was accidently left off without backing the whole set of later changes out and reapplying the changeset.