ChangeLog files - server and client scripts (git cherry-pick)

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 20/05/2020 10:27, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:19:49AM +0200, Thomas Koenig wrote:
>> Hm, one question: I find the r11-1234 type commit to be much more
>> readable, in ChangeLog files and everywhere else.
>>
>> Would it be possible to have that format instead of
>> "cherry picked from commit $HEX_SOUP" ?
> 
> I think if you git cherry-pick -x r11-1234-g123bcdef1234
> then it will show up in the commit message rather than just
> 123bcdef1234.  That command will not accept just r11-1234,
> as that is not a valid git commit-ish, so you'd need to do
> git cherry-pick -x `git gcc-undescr r11-1234`
> and then it would show just hash, or
> git cherry-pick -x `git gcc-descr --full $(git gcc-undescr r11-1234)`
> and then I think it should show up as that r11-1234-g............
> 
> 	Jakub
> 

Do I smell a git gcc-pick alias?

R.