Re: git question: How do I push a cherry-pick of someone else's commit?

On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:49:53PM +0000, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 07:30:47PM +0000, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > > I just tried to MFC a commit done to fix my commit by imp@
> > > and it won't let be push the cherry-pick.
> > >
> > > What's the trick to doing this?
> >
> > You need to add --push-option=confirm-author to the git push invocation.
> Ok, thanks.
> 
> It did try it as the message suggested:
> git push --push-option=confirm-author
> and it failed because it couldn't push refs to gitrepo.
>
> However, since you suggested it, I did:
> git push freebsd --push-option=confirm-author
> and that seemed to work.

I'm not sure why you'd need to specify the remote if your first attempt
to push to gitrepo.freebsd.org failed, given that "freebsd" presumably
points to gitrepo anyway.

> Hopefully I haven't screwed anything on the git repo up,

Looks ok to me. :)

> Thanks, rick
> 
> > Or do I need to get Warner to do it?
> > If so, it's 393b7606f9c1 in main, that needs to go into stable/13.
> >
> > rick
> > ps: The stable/13 build will be broken until this gets resolved.
> >       I'll revert the MFC if it isn't fixed soon.
> >
>