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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make new builtin cherry match documentation for "+" and "-"
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:22:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd58fqyfi.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610260845.23850.andyparkins@gmail.com> (Andy Parkins's message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:45:22 +0100")

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail•com> writes:

> On Wednesday 2006 October 25 19:41, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > "+" and "-" don't match the documentation, where "+" means the patch /is/
>> > in upstream, "-" means it isn't
>>
>> The documentation was utterly wrong.  The comment at the
>> beginning of git-cherry.sh was better but slightly wrong.
>
> Seriously?  In git-cherry output a "-" means that a patch is in?  Seems 
> counter-intuitive to me.
>
> Or is it meant to be analogous to a diff so "+" means "in order to make this 
> branch like the comparison branch you would have to /add/ this patch"?

It's more like "This is still relevant and you need to
positively push your upstream for inclusion".

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-26  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-25 14:49 (unknown) andyparkins
2006-10-25 18:41 ` (unknown) Junio C Hamano
2006-10-26  7:45   ` Make new builtin cherry match documentation for "+" and "-" Andy Parkins
2006-10-26  8:22     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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