Re: Suggestion for cherry-picking to stable branches

[Bruno Haible]

Sam James wrote:
> The expectation isn't that it directly matches the 'cherry-picked from
> ...' commits, but rather that it gives some anchor to compare to /
> expresses intent, rather than having to compare just the commit summary
> (as those aren't unique).

You can get such an "anchor"

(a) by using fuzzy-compare on the 'git log' entries, or
(b) by doing a side-by-side diff of the ChangeLogs, followed by a
    "git annotate" of matching ChangeLog entries.

Bruno