rebase: do not print lots of usage hints after an obvious error message

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 2cef579316ba11e68d65dc4d7309f2e56a465b3d..749d68a72bf720d82260fe175be0824f7ad069eb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ OPTIONS
 <commit>...::
        Commits to cherry-pick.
        For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
-       linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
+       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].
@@ -79,6 +79,16 @@ effect to your index in a row.
        cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
        be performed.
 
+--strategy=<strategy>::
+       Use the given merge strategy.  Should only be used once.
+       See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
+       for details.
+
+-X<option>::
+--strategy-option=<option>::
+       Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
+       merge strategy.  See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 git cherry-pick master::
@@ -92,7 +102,7 @@ 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\~4 master~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
@@ -120,6 +130,28 @@ git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin::
        so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
        commit if suitable.
 
+The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
+the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
+again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
+
+------------
+$ git cherry-pick topic^             <1>
+$ git diff                           <2>
+$ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD        <3>
+$ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^  <4>
+------------
+<1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
+In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
+information about the conflict is written to the index and
+working tree and no new commit results.
+<2> summarize changes to be reconciled
+<3> cancel the cherry-pick.  In other words, return to the
+pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in
+the working tree.
+<4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
+spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
+context lines.
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>