Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-post: the opposite of git-cherry-pick

2017-10-17 Thread Igor Djordjevic
On 17/10/2017 19:30, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Am 17.10.2017 um 01:01 schrieb Rafael Ascensao: >>> This is worth discussing, though not my preference. The picture to "pick >>> cherries" has become quite common, and now that we use it for the name of >>> the command, "cherry-pick", the direction of

Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-post: the opposite of git-cherry-pick

2017-10-17 Thread Johannes Sixt
Am 17.10.2017 um 01:01 schrieb Rafael Ascensao: This is worth discussing, though not my preference. The picture to "pick cherries" has become quite common, and now that we use it for the name of the command, "cherry-pick", the direction of flow is quite obvious and strongly implied: from

Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-post: the opposite of git-cherry-pick

2017-10-16 Thread Rafael Ascensao
> This is worth discussing, though not my preference. The picture to "pick > cherries" has become quite common, and now that we use it for the name of > the command, "cherry-pick", the direction of flow is quite obvious and > strongly implied: from somewhere else to me (and not to somebody else).

Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-post: the opposite of git-cherry-pick

2017-10-15 Thread Johannes Sixt
Am 13.10.2017 um 12:51 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason: On Thu, Oct 05 2017, Johannes Sixt jotted: Am 05.10.2017 um 21:33 schrieb Stefan Beller: * Is it a good design choice to have a different command, just because the target branch is [not] checked out? I would not want to make it a

Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-post: the opposite of git-cherry-pick

2017-10-13 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Oct 05 2017, Johannes Sixt jotted: > Am 05.10.2017 um 21:33 schrieb Stefan Beller: >> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: >>> +git-post(1) >>> +=== >>> + >>> +NAME >>> + >>> +git-post - Apply a commit on top of a branch that is not checked

Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-post: the opposite of git-cherry-pick

2017-10-05 Thread Johannes Sixt
Am 05.10.2017 um 21:33 schrieb Stefan Beller: On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: +git-post(1) +=== + +NAME + +git-post - Apply a commit on top of a branch that is not checked out Contrasted to: git-cherry-pick - Apply the changes introduced by

Re: [PATCH/RFC] git-post: the opposite of git-cherry-pick

2017-10-05 Thread Stefan Beller
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Add a new command that can be used to copy an arbitrary commit > to a branch that is not checked out. Cool. :) > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt > --- > I have been using this command since years, but got

[PATCH/RFC] git-post: the opposite of git-cherry-pick

2017-10-05 Thread Johannes Sixt
Add a new command that can be used to copy an arbitrary commit to a branch that is not checked out. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt --- I have been using this command since years, but got around to write a man page and tests only now. I hope the man page makes sense. I don't have