Re: [PATCH 5/5] rebase: fix cherry-pick invocations

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > So that all the tests pass.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  git-rebase--cherry.sh | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/git-rebase--cherry.sh b/git-rebase--cherry.sh
> > index ca78b1b..c3a2ac9 100644
> > --- a/git-rebase--cherry.sh
> > +++ b/git-rebase--cherry.sh
> > @@ -23,11 +23,26 @@ test -n "$rebase_root" && root_flag=--root
> >  mkdir "$state_dir" || die "Could not create temporary $state_dir"
> >  : > "$state_dir"/cherry || die "Could not mark as cherry"
> >  
> > +if test -n "$rebase_root"
> > +then
> > +	revisions="$onto...$orig_head"
> > +else
> > +	revisions="$upstream...$orig_head"
> > +fi
> 
> "So that all the tests pass" needs a bit more explanation to say for
> cherry-pick codepath why and how two-dot range fails and why and how
> three-dot variant with --right-only fixes it.  What are the problematic
> cases?

There's too many failures to count. We are blindingly applying a series of
commits on top of another without checking if they are merges or if they
already exist in the destination branch.

-- 
Felipe Contreras