Re: Unexpected cherry-pick behaviour

From: "Junio C Hamano" <redacted>, Saturday, December 14, 2013 
7:39 PM

"Philip Oakley" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Would this be a good use of the
   * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)
that was recently released (v1.8.5  2Dec13)  so that the merge stages
can be named.

Because the pathspec mechahism is for you to tell an operation that
works on a collection of paths (e.g. "all the paths in the HEAD",
"all the paths at stage #1 in the index") to narrow the set it
operates on down to only those that match, I do not think it is a
good match at all to what you are trying to do.

My point was that the ":1:" syntax already was a "path at stage #1 in 
the index" indicator, and that it would be good to have a memorable name 
for the :1:2:3: stages as per Antoine's  query.

It maybe that my referring to it as a 'magic pathspec' was a mistake, 
but the difficulty of remembering which number is ours:theirs:base still 
stands.

(for general info; the :<stage>:  format is defined in 'git revision 
(7)' as the last method for Specifying Revisions)

Philip
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PS should the cc: git-owner@vger.kernel.org be dropped as effectively a 
duplicate?