linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
- linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
+ linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will
+ feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk
+ (see a later example that uses 'maint master..next').
-e::
--edit::
previous commit are dropped. To force the inclusion of those commits
use `--keep-redundant-commits`.
+--allow-empty-message::
+ By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail.
+ This option overrides that behaviour, allowing commits with empty
+ messages to be cherry picked.
+
--keep-redundant-commits::
If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the
current history, it will become empty. By default these
Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
-`git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2`::
+`git cherry-pick maint next ^master`::
+`git cherry-pick maint master..next`::
+
+ Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are
+ ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its
+ ancestors. Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and
+ everything between `master` and `next`; specifically,
+ `maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`.
+
+`git cherry-pick master~4 master~2`::
Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
commit for each new change.
-`git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`::
+`git rev-list --reverse master -- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`::
Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
branch that touched README to the working tree and index,