Re: cherry picking changesets instead of commits

"Geoffrey Irving" [off-list ref] writes:

Would it be straightforward
to add an option to "git cherry" to ignore differences in metadata?
The cherry documentation doesn't give its criteria for when commits
match, and I'm not familiar enough with the code yet to figure out
those criteria directly from cmd_cherry in builtin-log.c.

cherry does not look at metadata at all.  It compares patch-ids.

On May 28, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

"Geoffrey Irving" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Would it be straightforward
to add an option to "git cherry" to ignore differences in metadata?
The cherry documentation doesn't give its criteria for when commits
match, and I'm not familiar enough with the code yet to figure out
those criteria directly from cmd_cherry in builtin-log.c.

cherry does not look at metadata at all.  It compares patch-ids.

Can you define what a patch-id is?

Geoffrey