SYNOPSIS
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-'git-cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-x] <commit>
+'git-cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-x] <commit>
DESCRIPTION
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message prior committing.
-x::
- Cause the command to append which commit was
- cherry-picked after the original commit message when
- making a commit. 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
+ 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
+ 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
other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
maintenance branch for an older release from a
described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the
default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
+-m parent-number|--mainline parent-number::
+ Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
+ side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
+ option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
+ the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
+ relative to the specified parent.
+
-n|--no-commit::
Usually the command automatically creates a commit with
a commit log message stating which commit was
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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