[cfe-dev] [llvm-dev] [lldb-dev] [GitHub] RFC: Enforcing no merge commit policy

[Andrea Bocci via cfe-dev]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 23:41, Joerg Sonnenberger via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

>
> This always felt strongly like a design deficit of git and not a feature
> that should be advertised. That is, lack of proper cherry-picking meta
> data is the main bug and the back-way model of committing to the oldest
> release branch first is the consequence.
>

git cherry-pick -x  will append a line that says "(cherry picked from
commit ...)" to the original commit message in order to indicate which
commit this change was cherry-picked from.

It is not "metadata", but could serve the same purpose.

.Andrea
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