git: a4c3b6f622b8 - main - Remove two tools that are no longer useful with Git.

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:57:20PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Rene Ladan wrote:
> >     Remove two tools that are no longer useful with Git.
> >     
> >     - mfh: this is replaced by 'git cherry-pick -x HASH'
> 
> I believe it would be useful to still have such a tool that one simply 
> invokes as "mfh $COMMITID" for the quarterly branch as in the past.
> 
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/committers-guide/#ports-qa-misc-commit-mfh 
> has instructions on how to do this manually, alas that is quite not 
> as convenient - and hence likely to be used - as the nice original 
> mfh tool.

Well, with Git, mfh would end up being:

git checkout 2021Q2
git cherry-pick -x $COMMITID
git push origin 2021Q2

I would rather committers learn how to use git (it is, after all, what
they are here for) and then, they can magically now test before pushing.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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