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Cherry command available? [message #1743141]

Mon, 12 September 2016 15:13

Vincent Leon

Messages: 2
Registered: September 2016

Junior Member

Hello!

I am building a small application where I use JGit through Maven dependency so I can use its API to call commands like clone, fetch, log...

I would need to use the cherry command (not cherry-pick) but I cannot find it in the API.
Is it available?
If not is there any way to use it?

Thanks!

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Re: Cherry command available? [message #1743203 is a reply to message #1743141]

Tue, 13 September 2016 09:39

Christian Halstrick

Messages: 274
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

No, this functionality is not in JGit. I like "git cherry" functionality and sometimes use it by switching to native git for that. But up to know IIRC nobody asked for that functionality in JGit. In contrast to other missing features which can also be achieved by combining other JGit commands "git cherry" is really something new. One would have to diff the patches for all commits in the target branch to that of the commit to be "cherried?". If the patches are equal enough one could determine the commit is already in the target branch. Do you have an interest to contribute?

Ciao
Chris

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Re: Cherry command available? [message #1743475 is a reply to message #1743203]

Thu, 15 September 2016 18:22

Vincent Leon

Messages: 2
Registered: September 2016

Junior Member

Thanks for your reply Christian!
Indeed, I discovered this command recently, it's really neat to spot that a commit is most likely generated by a cherry-pick! It avoids to manually generate the patch-id of both commits and compare them.
I could be interested to contribute, but I do have to admit that I feel like the code is a bit hardcore xD How does it work for the contribution?

In the meantime, do you think there is a way to achieve this "cherry-pick detection"? I don't remember having seen the patch-id command neither... Or is it an option of the patch one?

[Updated on: Thu, 15 September 2016 18:24]

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