Re: [RFC] Patches exchange is bad?

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Marco Costalba wrote:

Suppose a possible scenario involves using a couple of git archives, one 
for releases and stable code, say MAIN, and one for experimental stuff  
or new development, say HEAD.

Suppose there is stuff in HEAD you don't want merged in MAIN, more,
you need to update MAIN with only a subset of patches in HEAD, peraphs 
in different order. Or simply, you are not interested to see the history 
of the HEAD tree when looking MAIN. All this points could keep you 
from merging.

This looks like a good description of cherry picking. See StGIT (and to a 
certain extent, git-cherry) for that.

Ciao,
Dscho