Re: git merge after git cherry-pick?

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 07:14:49PM +0200, "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)" wrote:

On a branch, b, made off of master, I've made the commits b1, b2, b3 and  
b4.

Back on master, I need commit b1 and b3 immediately. So I:

$ git checkout master
$ git cherry-pick "b1's SHA"
$ git cherry-pick "b3's SHA"

Now, both b and master contain b1 and b3. How do I now create a log of  
"what remains to be merged from b to master", i.e. only b2 and b4? And  
how do I merge b2 and b4 to master, so master's log shows b1, b3, b2 and  
b4 and doesn't show b1 and b3 twice, which is what I get if I:

$ git merge b

after the cherry-picks above. Also I noticed, that if I merge master  
into b (to keep up-to-date with master) b1 and b3 are also mentioned 
twice.

You could use 'git rebase' for that.

e.g. now the history of your master and b branches look like this:

  o---X---b1'---b3'---Y   master
   \
    b1---b2---b3---b4   b

The command 'git rebase master b' will then turn this history into the
following:

  o---X---b1'---b3'---Y   master
                       \
                        b2---b4   b

After this 'git merge b' will do what you would like it to do.


Regards,
Gábor