[pulseaudio-discuss] Fixing git branches

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 10/05/10 06:47 did gyre and gimble:
> On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 14:30 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> I've just done a git cherry and pushed 5 patches to master (although one
>> of those I'd only just committed to stable-queue so really master only
>> had 4 missing commits).
> 
> Excellent, thank you! For some reason I thought stable-queue had
> diverged more. That "git cherry" may become handy at some point, thanks
> also for letting me know about it.

Yeah it's a handy command :) There are a few false negagives in there
but it's not too hard to work it out.

I wish there was a second mode to git cherry that compared commit
messages as a backup if git-patch-id didn't produce results (although it
would have to show you clearly that it has matched on subject only, not
patch contents.

Col

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