introduces, recording a new commit for each. This requires your
working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).
+When it is not obvious how to apply a change, the following
+happens:
+
+1. The current branch and `HEAD` pointer stay at the last commit
+ successfully made.
+2. The `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` ref is set to point at the commit that
+ introduced the change that is difficult to apply.
+3. Paths in which the change applied cleanly are updated both
+ in the index file and in your working tree.
+4. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three
+ versions, as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of
+ linkgit:git-merge[1]. The working tree files will include
+ a description of the conflict bracketed by the usual
+ conflict markers `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`.
+5. No other modifications are made.
+
+See linkgit:git-merge[1] for some hints on resolving such
+conflicts.
+
OPTIONS
-------
<commit>...::
message prior to committing.
-x::
- When recording the commit, append to the original commit
- message a note that indicates which commit this change
- was cherry-picked from. Append the note only for cherry
+ When recording the commit, append a line that says
+ "(cherry picked from commit ...)" to the original commit
+ message in order to indicate which commit this change was
+ cherry-picked from. This is done only for cherry
picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
context lines.
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-revert[1]