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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make new builtin cherry match documentation for "+" and "-"
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:45:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610260845.23850.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vk62ob5mp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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"?


Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-26  7:45 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   ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2006-10-26  8:22     ` Make new builtin cherry match documentation for "+" and "-" Junio C Hamano

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