On 2022-Feb-11, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Because I put your patch on top of some other branch with the CI coverage (and
> other stuff).
Ah, that makes sense.
> But it has to figure out where the branch "starts". Which I did by looking at
> "git diff --cherry-pick origin..."
>
> I'm not sure git diff --cherry-pick is widely known/used, but I think
> using that relative to master may be good enough.
I had never heard of git diff --cherry-pick, and the manpages I found
don't document it, so frankly I doubt it's known. I still have no idea
what does it do.
I suppose there is an obvious reason why using git diff with
$(git merge-base ...) as one of the arguments doesn't work for these purposes.
> Andres thinks that does the wrong thing if CI is run manually (not by CFBOT)
> for patches against backbranches.
I wonder if it's sufficient to handle these things (coverage
specifically) for branch master only.
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