At the porcelain level, because by definition there are many more contributors
than integrators, it makes sense to give a handy short-hand for --right-only
used with --cherry-mark and --no-merges. Make it so.
In other words, this provides "git cherry with rev-list interface".
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/rev-list-options.txt | 8 ++++++++
revision.c | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
index 4755b83..95d209c 100644
--- a/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/rev-list-options.txt
@@ -337,6 +337,14 @@ commits from `B` which are in `A` or are patch-equivalent to a commit in
More precisely, `--cherry-pick --right-only --no-merges` gives the exact
list.
+--cherry::
+
+ A synonym for `--right-only --cherry-mark --no-merges`; useful to
+ limit the output to the commits on our side and mark those that
+ have been applied to the other side of a forked history with
+ `git log --cherry upstream...mybranch`, similar to
+ `git cherry upstream mybranch`.
+
-g::
--walk-reflogs::
diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 3da403e..61f571e 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1289,12 +1289,20 @@ static int handle_revision_opt(struct rev_info *revs, int argc, const char **arg
revs->left_right = 1;
} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--left-only")) {
if (revs->right_only)
- die("--left-only is incompatible with --right-only");
+ die("--left-only is incompatible with --right-only"
+ " or --cherry");
revs->left_only = 1;
} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--right-only")) {
if (revs->left_only)
die("--right-only is incompatible with --left-only");
revs->right_only = 1;
+ } else if (!strcmp(arg, "--cherry")) {
+ if (revs->left_only)
+ die("--cherry is incompatible with --left-only");
+ revs->cherry_mark = 1;
+ revs->right_only = 1;
+ revs->no_merges = 1;
+ revs->limited = 1;
} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--count")) {
revs->count = 1;
} else if (!strcmp(arg, "--cherry-mark")) {
--
1.7.4.1.299.g567d7.dirty
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