Re: Question about the commits found in a stable tree

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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 05:45:47PM +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 09:10 +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > Currently there are 3 different formats used for backports of a single
>> >> > commit, which are:
>> >> >
>> >> > gregkh:          commit $HASH upstream.
>> >> > davem:           [ Upstream commit $HASH ]
>> >>
>> >> ah thanks I missed the last one :)
>> >>
>> >> > git-cherry-pick: (cherry-picked from commit $HASH)
>> >>
>> >> is this format used by any stable trees ?
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > So far as I know, all currently-maintained stable branches have a
>> > mixture of these.
>>
>> The last case doesn't seem to be frequent though, I failed to find an example.
>>
>> Could you provide one ?
>
> Sorry, I wrote it wrongly: git actually spells it 'cherry picked'

no problem I should have tried some alternatives.

> though people have sometimes used 'cherry-picked' or 'Cherry-picked'
> when writing the reference by hand.

Well, that's just what I'm fearing.

Thanks
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Francis
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