1git-cherry-pick(1) 2================== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-cherry-pick - Apply the changes introduced by some existing commits 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] [--ff] 12 [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>... 13'git cherry-pick' --continue 14'git cherry-pick' --quit 15'git cherry-pick' --abort 16 17DESCRIPTION 18----------- 19 20Given one or more existing commits, apply the change each one 21introduces, recording a new commit for each. This requires your 22working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit). 23 24When it is not obvious how to apply a change, the following 25happens: 26 271. The current branch and `HEAD` pointer stay at the last commit 28 successfully made. 292. The `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` ref is set to point at the commit that 30 introduced the change that is difficult to apply. 313. Paths in which the change applied cleanly are updated both 32 in the index file and in your working tree. 334. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three 34 versions, as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of 35 linkgit:git-merge[1]. The working tree files will include 36 a description of the conflict bracketed by the usual 37 conflict markers `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`. 385. No other modifications are made. 39 40See linkgit:git-merge[1] for some hints on resolving such 41conflicts. 42 43OPTIONS 44------- 45<commit>...:: 46 Commits to cherry-pick. 47 For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see 48 linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. 49 Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by 50 default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see 51 linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will 52 feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk 53 (see a later example that uses 'maint master..next'). 54 55-e:: 56--edit:: 57 With this option, 'git cherry-pick' will let you edit the commit 58 message prior to committing. 59 60-x:: 61 When recording the commit, append a line that says 62 "(cherry picked from commit ...)" to the original commit 63 message in order to indicate which commit this change was 64 cherry-picked from. This is done only for cherry 65 picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if 66 you are cherry-picking from your private branch because 67 the information is useless to the recipient. If on the 68 other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly 69 visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a 70 maintenance branch for an older release from a 71 development branch), adding this information can be 72 useful. 73 74-r:: 75 It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x` 76 described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the 77 default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op. 78 79-m parent-number:: 80--mainline parent-number:: 81 Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which 82 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This 83 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of 84 the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change 85 relative to the specified parent. 86 87-n:: 88--no-commit:: 89 Usually the command automatically creates a sequence of commits. 90 This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick 91 each named commit to your working tree and the index, 92 without making any commit. In addition, when this 93 option is used, your index does not have to match the 94 HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the 95 beginning state of your index. 96+ 97This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits' 98effect to your index in a row. 99 100-s:: 101--signoff:: 102 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. 103 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information. 104 105-S[<keyid>]:: 106--gpg-sign[=<keyid>]:: 107 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and 108 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be 109 stuck to the option without a space. 110 111--ff:: 112 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the 113 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will 114 be performed. 115 116--allow-empty:: 117 By default, cherry-picking an empty commit will fail, 118 indicating that an explicit invocation of `git commit 119 --allow-empty` is required. This option overrides that 120 behavior, allowing empty commits to be preserved automatically 121 in a cherry-pick. Note that when "--ff" is in effect, empty 122 commits that meet the "fast-forward" requirement will be kept 123 even without this option. Note also, that use of this option only 124 keeps commits that were initially empty (i.e. the commit recorded the 125 same tree as its parent). Commits which are made empty due to a 126 previous commit are dropped. To force the inclusion of those commits 127 use `--keep-redundant-commits`. 128 129--allow-empty-message:: 130 By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail. 131 This option overrides that behavior, allowing commits with empty 132 messages to be cherry picked. 133 134--keep-redundant-commits:: 135 If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the 136 current history, it will become empty. By default these 137 redundant commits cause `cherry-pick` to stop so the user can 138 examine the commit. This option overrides that behavior and 139 creates an empty commit object. Implies `--allow-empty`. 140 141--strategy=<strategy>:: 142 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once. 143 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1] 144 for details. 145 146-X<option>:: 147--strategy-option=<option>:: 148 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the 149 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details. 150 151SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS 152--------------------- 153include::sequencer.txt[] 154 155EXAMPLES 156-------- 157`git cherry-pick master`:: 158 159 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the 160 master branch and create a new commit with this change. 161 162`git cherry-pick ..master`:: 163`git cherry-pick ^HEAD master`:: 164 165 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors 166 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits. 167 168`git cherry-pick maint next ^master`:: 169`git cherry-pick maint master..next`:: 170 171 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are 172 ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its 173 ancestors. Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and 174 everything between `master` and `next`; specifically, 175 `maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`. 176 177`git cherry-pick master~4 master~2`:: 178 179 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last 180 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with 181 these changes. 182 183`git cherry-pick -n master~1 next`:: 184 185 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced 186 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last 187 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with 188 these changes. 189 190`git cherry-pick --ff ..next`:: 191 192 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update 193 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next. 194 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that 195 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new 196 commit for each new change. 197 198`git rev-list --reverse master -- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`:: 199 200 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master 201 branch that touched README to the working tree and index, 202 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new 203 commit if suitable. 204 205The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because 206the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries 207again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines. 208 209------------ 210$ git cherry-pick topic^ <1> 211$ git diff <2> 212$ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3> 213$ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4> 214------------ 215<1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`. 216In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so 217information about the conflict is written to the index and 218working tree and no new commit results. 219<2> summarize changes to be reconciled 220<3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the 221pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in 222the working tree. 223<4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again, 224spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching 225context lines. 226 227SEE ALSO 228-------- 229linkgit:git-revert[1] 230 231GIT 232--- 233Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite