GNU bug report logs - #19049
25.0.50; emacs-repository-get-version doesn't work with git

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Merged with 19040

Found in version 25.0.50

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #51 received at 19049 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 19049 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19049: 25.0.50;
 emacs-repository-get-version doesn't work with git
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:50:28 +0200

> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  19049 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:17:01 +0200
> 
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > neither of which helps, and the Emacs for Git Devs wiki doesn't say how
> > to cherry-pick stuff, either.
> 
> Have you tried 'git cherry-pick <hash>'? Seems rather obvious, doesn't it?

No, it isn't obvious if you never did that before.  More importantly,
it's not the way changes should be backported, because cherry-pick
also commits reusing the same commit message, as Lars has just
discovered, which is bad.
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