Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Francis Galiegue <fg@one2team.net> writes:
> 
> > A very nice git feature, without even going as far as merges, is the cherry 
> > pick feature.
> 
> I thought cherry-picking needs to be done in terms of 3-way merge, not
> diff piped to patch, for correctness's sake.

Yea, the 3-way merge cherry-pick is better.  But in a pinch you
can (usually) get correct results from a "diff | patch" pipeline.
Of course that doesn't always work, resulting in patches that don't
apply cleanly, or worse, that apply at the wrong place silently.

-- 
Shawn.
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