Package: git Version: 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi,
I'm trying to cherry-pick merges in a script, and the manual page says that in order to do that, I need to pass the number of the "mainline" ancestor in the list of parents. This is rather annoying to use from a script, especially as it should be easy to determine automatically: the mainline is the commit that is reachable from the current mainline branch. So it would be nice to have an option that allows me to treat a certain commit-ish as the mainline, with the expectation that only one of the parent commits of the merge commit being cherry-picked will be reachable from that revision. If that isn't possible for some reason, it would be nice if I could at least use a commit ID instead of an index into a list of commit IDs -- that would make scripting a lot easier. Simon -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages git depends on: ii git-man 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u4 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.38.0-4+deb8u3 ii liberror-perl 0.17-1.1 ii libexpat1 2.1.0-6+deb8u3 ii libpcre3 2:8.35-3.3+deb8u4 ii perl-modules 5.20.2-3+deb8u5 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages git recommends: ii less 458-3 ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u2 ii patch 2.7.5-1 ii rsync 3.1.1-3 Versions of packages git suggests: ii gettext-base 0.19.3-2 pn git-arch <none> pn git-cvs <none> pn git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit <none> pn git-doc <none> pn git-el <none> ii git-email 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 pn git-gui <none> pn git-mediawiki <none> ii git-svn 1:2.1.4-2.1+deb8u2 pn gitk <none> pn gitweb <none> -- no debconf information
