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::
so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
commit if suitable.
-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>.
+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.
SEE ALSO
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