And introduce -x to expose (possibly) private commit object name for people who cherry-pick between public branches. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> --- * We discussed about this a few times already and every time I end up forgetting. I noticed the topic on the kernel list a few days ago again. Thanks for reminding. Does the rationale and warning for -x in the documentation look Ok? Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- git-revert.sh | 12 +++++++----- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index bfa950c..875edb6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-cherry-pick - Apply the change intro SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-r] <commit> +'git-cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-x] <commit> DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -24,13 +24,22 @@ OPTIONS With this option, `git-cherry-pick` will let you edit the commit message prior committing. --r|--replay:: - Usually the command appends which commit was +-x:: + Cause the command to append which commit was cherry-picked after the original commit message when - making a commit. This option, '--replay', causes it to - use the original commit message intact. This is useful - when you are reordering the patches in your private tree - before publishing. + making a commit. Do not use this option if you are + cherry-picking from your private branch because the + information is useless to the recipient. If on the + other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly + visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a + maintenance branch for an older release from a + development branch), adding this information can be + useful. + +-r|--replay:: + It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x` + described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the + default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op. -n|--no-commit:: Usually the command automatically creates a commit with diff --git a/git-revert.sh b/git-revert.sh index 2bf35d1..0784f74 100755 --- a/git-revert.sh +++ b/git-revert.sh @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ case "$0" in *-cherry-pick* ) edit= me=cherry-pick - USAGE='[--edit] [-n] [-r] <commit-ish>' ;; + USAGE='[--edit] [-n] [-r] [-x] <commit-ish>' ;; * ) die "What are you talking about?" ;; esac . git-sh-setup -no_commit= replay= +no_commit= replay=t while case "$#" in 0) break ;; esac do case "$1" in @@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ do --n|--no|--no-|--no-e|--no-ed|--no-edi|--no-edit) edit= ;; - -r|--r|--re|--rep|--repl|--repla|--replay) - replay=t + -r) + : no-op ;; + -x|--i-really-want-to-expose-my-private-commit-object-name) + replay= ;; -*) usage @@ -121,7 +123,7 @@ cherry-pick) git-cat-file commit $commit | sed -e '1,/^$/d' case "$replay" in '') - echo "(cherry picked from $commit commit)" + echo "(cherry picked from commit $commit)" test "$rev" = "$commit" || echo "(original 'git cherry-pick' arguments: $@)" ;; -- 1.4.2.3.gae59 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html