Re: [PATCH] cherry-pick: Add an option to prepend a string to the commit message

Bobby Powers wrote:

On 06/11/2010 11:28 PM, Jeff King wrote:

quoted

FWIW, we can already do this kind of stuff with:

  GIT_EDITOR="sed -i 1i$prefix" git cherry-pick -e $ref

or

  git cherry-pick -n $ref&&
  sed -i 1i$prefix .git/MERGE_MSG
  GIT_EDITOR=true git commit

I'll admit the first one is not very intuitive. But it is easy to script
around the second form. For one of my examples, I would probably do:

  git cherry-pick -n $ref&&
  git log -1 --format='%s%n%ncontent between subject and body%n%b' |
  git commit -F -

I like this; it clearly hadn't occurred to me.  I can just use this
format instead.

Sorry to misunderstand.  Maybe something like this could help.  Patch
applies on top of cc/cherry-pick-series.

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Subject: Documentation: explain use of cherry-pick -n in scripts

Add an example to indicate how to munge a commit while cherry-picking it.

The formatting is ugly because I do not know how to ask asciidoc to
use a multiline heading in a definition list.

Based-on-work-by: Jeff King [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index bcb4c75..4769ca5 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt

@@ -113,6 +113,17 @@ git cherry-pick --ff ..next::
 	are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
 	commit for each new change.
 
+------------
+git checkout maint &&
+git cherry-pick -n bugfix &&
+git add new_file.txt &&
+git show -s bugfix --format='%s%n%n%b%n%nAlso add a new file.' |
+git commit -F -
+------------
+
+	Apply a bugfix on top of the maint branch and tweak it before
+	creating a new commit to record it.
+
 Author
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 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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