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From: greened@obbligato•org
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Detecting redundant commits
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 09:59:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nngtwmtwd2q.fsf@lnx-dag.us.cray.com> (raw)

I am attempting to teach cherry-pick to handle redundant commits
gracefully (via a new --skip-redundant-commits option) instead of
aborting.  However, I'm struggling a bit with how to check if the
changes in a commit will become redundant when appied to the new HEAD.

I found diff_tree_sha1 which seems promising.  Am I on the right track?
If not, what's the best way to determine whether a commit object is
redundant with respect to HEAD?

                           -David

             reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-04 15:59 greened [this message]
2016-01-05  4:00 ` Detecting redundant commits Jeff King
2016-01-05 16:31   ` David Greene
2016-01-08  3:14     ` David A. Greene

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