6 git-cherry-pick - Apply the changes introduced by some existing commits
11 'git cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] [--ff]
12 [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
13 'git cherry-pick' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)
18 Given one or more existing commits, apply the change each one
19 introduces, recording a new commit for each. This requires your
20 working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).
22 When it is not obvious how to apply a change, the following
25 1. The current branch and `HEAD` pointer stay at the last commit
27 2. The `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` ref is set to point at the commit that
28 introduced the change that is difficult to apply.
29 3. Paths in which the change applied cleanly are updated both
30 in the index file and in your working tree.
31 4. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three
32 versions, as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of
33 linkgit:git-merge[1]. The working tree files will include
34 a description of the conflict bracketed by the usual
35 conflict markers `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`.
36 5. No other modifications are made.
38 See linkgit:git-merge[1] for some hints on resolving such
44 Commits to cherry-pick.
45 For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
46 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
47 Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
48 default, as if the `--no-walk` option was specified, see
49 linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will
50 feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk
51 (see a later example that uses 'maint master..next').
55 With this option, 'git cherry-pick' will let you edit the commit
56 message prior to committing.
59 This option determines how the commit message will be cleaned up before
60 being passed on to the commit machinery. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more
61 details. In particular, if the '<mode>' is given a value of `scissors`,
62 scissors will be appended to `MERGE_MSG` before being passed on in the case
66 When recording the commit, append a line that says
67 "(cherry picked from commit ...)" to the original commit
68 message in order to indicate which commit this change was
69 cherry-picked from. This is done only for cherry
70 picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
71 you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
72 the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
73 other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
74 visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
75 maintenance branch for an older release from a
76 development branch), adding this information can be
80 It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
81 described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the
82 default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
85 --mainline parent-number::
86 Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which
87 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
88 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
89 the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
90 relative to the specified parent.
94 Usually the command automatically creates a sequence of commits.
95 This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick
96 each named commit to your working tree and the index,
97 without making any commit. In addition, when this
98 option is used, your index does not have to match the
99 HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
100 beginning state of your index.
102 This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
103 effect to your index in a row.
107 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
108 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
111 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
112 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
113 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
114 stuck to the option without a space.
117 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
118 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
122 By default, cherry-picking an empty commit will fail,
123 indicating that an explicit invocation of `git commit
124 --allow-empty` is required. This option overrides that
125 behavior, allowing empty commits to be preserved automatically
126 in a cherry-pick. Note that when "--ff" is in effect, empty
127 commits that meet the "fast-forward" requirement will be kept
128 even without this option. Note also, that use of this option only
129 keeps commits that were initially empty (i.e. the commit recorded the
130 same tree as its parent). Commits which are made empty due to a
131 previous commit are dropped. To force the inclusion of those commits
132 use `--keep-redundant-commits`.
134 --allow-empty-message::
135 By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail.
136 This option overrides that behavior, allowing commits with empty
137 messages to be cherry picked.
139 --keep-redundant-commits::
140 If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the
141 current history, it will become empty. By default these
142 redundant commits cause `cherry-pick` to stop so the user can
143 examine the commit. This option overrides that behavior and
144 creates an empty commit object. Implies `--allow-empty`.
146 --strategy=<strategy>::
147 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
148 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
152 --strategy-option=<option>::
153 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
154 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
156 --rerere-autoupdate::
157 --no-rerere-autoupdate::
158 Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
159 result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
161 SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
162 ---------------------
163 include::sequencer.txt[]
167 `git cherry-pick master`::
169 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
170 master branch and create a new commit with this change.
172 `git cherry-pick ..master`::
173 `git cherry-pick ^HEAD master`::
175 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
176 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
178 `git cherry-pick maint next ^master`::
179 `git cherry-pick maint master..next`::
181 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are
182 ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its
183 ancestors. Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and
184 everything between `master` and `next`; specifically,
185 `maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`.
187 `git cherry-pick master~4 master~2`::
189 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
190 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
193 `git cherry-pick -n master~1 next`::
195 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
196 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
197 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
200 `git cherry-pick --ff ..next`::
202 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
203 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
204 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that
205 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
206 commit for each new change.
208 `git rev-list --reverse master -- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`::
210 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
211 branch that touched README to the working tree and index,
212 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
215 The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
216 the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
217 again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
220 $ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
222 $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
223 $ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
225 <1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
226 In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
227 information about the conflict is written to the index and
228 working tree and no new commit results.
229 <2> summarize changes to be reconciled
230 <3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the
231 pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications
232 you had in the working tree.
233 <4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
234 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly
235 matching context lines.
239 linkgit:git-revert[1]
243 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite