revert/cherry-pick: work on merge commits as well
Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
side of the merge should be considered the mainline (iow, what
change to reverse).
With this patch, cherry-pick and revert learn -m (--mainline)
option that lets you specify the parent number (starting from 1)
of the mainline, so that you can:
git revert -m 1 $merge
to reverse the changes introduced by the $merge commit relative
to its first parent, and:
git cherry-pick -m 2 $merge
to replay the changes introduced by the $merge commit relative
to its second parent.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 474f1d1..7b29d1b 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -381,4 +381,17 @@
return 0;
}
+static inline int strtol_i(char const *s, int base, int *result)
+{
+ long ul;
+ char *p;
+
+ errno = 0;
+ ul = strtol(s, &p, base);
+ if (errno || *p || p == s || (int) ul != ul)
+ return -1;
+ *result = ul;
+ return 0;
+}
+
#endif
