git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation

When given a set of commits, cherry-pick will apply the changes for
all of them. Specifying a simple range will also work as expected.

This can lead the user to think that

    git cherry-pick A B..C

may apply A and then B..C, but that is not what happens.

Instead the revs are given to a single invocation of rev-list, which
will consider A and C as positive revs and B as a negative one.  The
commit A will not be used if it is an ancestor of B.

Add a note about this and add an example with this particular
syntax, which has shown up on the list a few times.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Carlos Martín Nieto 2012-06-15 16:33:16 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 42939f1a24
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@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ OPTIONS
linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will
feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk
(see a later example that uses 'maint master..next').
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@ -130,6 +132,15 @@ EXAMPLES
Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
`git cherry-pick maint next ^master`::
`git cherry-pick maint master..next`::
Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are
ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its
ancestors. Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and
everything between `master` and `next`; specifically,
`maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`.
`git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2`::
Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last