SYNOPSIS
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+[verse]
'git cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] [--ff] <commit>...
DESCRIPTION
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
EXAMPLES
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-git cherry-pick master::
+`git cherry-pick master`::
Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
master branch and create a new commit with this change.
-git cherry-pick ..master::
-git cherry-pick ^HEAD master::
+`git cherry-pick ..master`::
+`git cherry-pick ^HEAD master`::
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 master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2`::
Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
these changes.
-git cherry-pick -n master~1 next::
+`git cherry-pick -n master~1 next`::
Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
these changes.
-git cherry-pick --ff ..next::
+`git cherry-pick --ff ..next`::
If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
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,
spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
context lines.
-Author
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-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-
-Documentation
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-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
SEE ALSO
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linkgit:git-revert[1]