Comments on Feeding the Cloud: Cherry-picking a range of git commits

For any older git: git rev-list ^f545188 master -...

2011-01-22T05:47:37.538+13:00

For any older git:

git rev-list ^f545188 master --reverse | git cherry-pick --stdin

Now Simon already talked about interactive rebase,...

2010-07-22T04:45:43.535+12:00

Now Simon already talked about interactive rebase, but another point: there's no need to rebase stable --hardly to the other branch. In fact, as the target was rebased a "git merge" will be a fast-forward, so can be done without generating a merge commit.

And with git v1.7.2 you'll be able to use: gi...

2010-07-21T05:08:01.908+12:00

And with git v1.7.2 you'll be able to use:

git cherry-pick 7f545188^..a7785c10

:-)

Are you looking for the "-i" option?

2010-07-21T02:26:04.087+12:00

Are you looking for the "-i" option?

You have a mistake in your alias that got me confu...

2010-07-21T00:58:22.401+12:00

You have a mistake in your alias that got me confused at first: It's not "--pretty=oneline" but it's "--oneline" instead (or "--pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit"). Otherwise you'll get the full commit IDs which are rather unhandy.

Thanks for this helpful article, and even more for the useful alias. :)

Enjoy!