cuts down the while loop iterations from 4600 to 380 commits at the
moment
NOTE: This is a candidate for the stable branches.
Reviewed-by: Ian Romanick <ian.d.romanick@intel.com>
# Script for generating a list of candidates for cherry-picking to a stable branch
-git log --reverse --pretty=%H HEAD..origin/master |\
+# Grep for commits that were marked as a candidate for the stable tree.
+git log --reverse --pretty=%H -i --grep='^[[:space:]]*NOTE: This is a candidate' HEAD..origin/master |\
while read sha
do
- # Check to see whether the patch was marked as a candidate for the stable tree.
- if git log -n1 $sha | grep -iq '^[[:space:]]*NOTE: This is a candidate' ; then
+ # Check to see whether the patch is on the ignore list.
if [ -f .git/cherry-ignore ] ; then
if grep -q ^$sha .git/cherry-ignore ; then
continue
fi
git log -n1 --pretty=oneline $sha | cat
- fi
done