Re: Suggestion for cherry-picking to stable branches

[Bruno Haible]

Sam James wrote:
> It's metadata in addition to the
> commit summary (matching based on a title isn't easy, it's way easier if
> someone says "here's the commits it's based on"; one can give multiple
> such lines).

It would significantly increase the amount of work for maintaining a stable
branch. No, thanks.

> it makes life far easier if investigating a bug.

The way I check whether a certain bug fix is present is
  1. to get the fix from master,
  2. find a particular code line / hunk that is essential for the fix,
  3. look if this change is present in the branch.

This is more reliable than to look at the git log or ChangeLog, because
when a patch has not been applied correctly in the branch (due to
rejects, maybe) there is a mismatch between the advertised list of fixes
and the actual list of fixes.

Bruno