martin f krafft <madduck@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > also sprach Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007.10.10.0354 +0100]: >> Cherry-picking is immaterial. It doesn't matter how the changes >> come into the tree. It doesn't matter what the history is. The >> only thing git cares about is the content, and the end result. > > This is the part I over-estimated. I thought that Git would figure > out that commits 1-3 had been merged into the target and thus apply, > in sequence, only the commits from the source which had not been > merged. > > Many thanks (again), Linus! Looking forward to your next content > manager; you know, the one with artificial intelligence built in! > You could call it "wit" :) Well, there is also an obvious name choice when the distinguishing innovation is a well-rounded feature set, but it would cause a name collision for the equivalent of "tig". -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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