linux-kernel - Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

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Message-ID: <20080213005604.GA5830@fieldses.org>
Date:	Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:56:04 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linville@...driver.com
Subject: Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:48:41AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 07:16:50PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > Ahem...  Use of git-cherry-pick preserves commit information just fine.
> > 
> > Not by default, at least (note they said "commiters", not "authors"):
> 
> That's why you give it -r.

What version of git have you tried this with?  At least on my version,
-r is a no-op, and the results are the same; the author is still kept
and the maintainer changed.  I thought it had been that way for ages.

--b.

bfields@pig:~/local/linux-2.6$ git --version
git version 1.5.4.rc2.60.gb2e62
bfields@pig:~/local/linux-2.6$ git cherry-pick -r v2.6.25-rc1
Finished one cherry-pick.
Created commit 0277143: Linux 2.6.25-rc1
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
bfields@pig:~/local/linux-2.6$ git cat-file -p HEAD
tree 4018d5d93f857d946dd89acbb4e45c9da04eadaf
parent b6ce068a1285a24185b01be8a49021827516b3e1
author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...dy.linux-foundation.org> 1202681894 -0800
committer J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...i.umich.edu> 1202863894 -0500

Linux 2.6.25-rc1

.. and I really need to call it something else.  Maybe it is time to
bring back the weasel series, since weasels always make me feel good
about a kernel.

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