Hi Martin.
>> I left the changelog entry dates of the original commits untouched, >> and added `(cherry-pick from commit XXX)' lines to the commit >> messages. Hope that is ok... please let me know otherwise! > > Hello. > > For creating a backport please use contrib/git-backport.py script. > The script basically runs 'git cherry-pick -x' and reverts all modifications > of ChangeLog files. > > So your line: > > (cherry pick of commit af30b83b50953fbbe671d93d44ea6ac2f7a50ce9) > > should be: > (cherry picked from commit af30b83b50953fbbe671d93d44ea6ac2f7a50ce9) > > You can then check your commits with git gcc-verify hook (from > contrib/gcc-git-customization.sh). I checked each commit with git gcc-verify, but since I didn't know about git-backport.py I used cherry-pick -n and reverted the ChangeLog entries by hand. Now I know better for the next time :) Thanks for the info!
