6 git-cherry-pick - Apply the changes introduced by some existing commits
10 'git cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] [--ff] <commit>...
15 Given one or more existing commits, apply the change each one
16 introduces, recording a new commit for each. This requires your
17 working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).
19 When it is not obvious how to apply a change, the following
22 1. The current branch and `HEAD` pointer stay at the last commit
24 2. The `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` ref is set to point at the commit that
25 introduced the change that is difficult to apply.
26 3. Paths in which the change applied cleanly are updated both
27 in the index file and in your working tree.
28 4. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three
29 versions, as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of
30 linkgit:git-merge[1]. The working tree files will include
31 a description of the conflict bracketed by the usual
32 conflict markers `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`.
33 5. No other modifications are made.
35 See linkgit:git-merge[1] for some hints on resolving such
41 Commits to cherry-pick.
42 For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
43 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
44 Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
45 default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
46 linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
50 With this option, 'git cherry-pick' will let you edit the commit
51 message prior to committing.
54 When recording the commit, append to the original commit
55 message a note that indicates which commit this change
56 was cherry-picked from. Append the note only for cherry
57 picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
58 you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
59 the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
60 other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
61 visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
62 maintenance branch for an older release from a
63 development branch), adding this information can be
67 It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
68 described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the
69 default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
72 --mainline parent-number::
73 Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which
74 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
75 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
76 the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
77 relative to the specified parent.
81 Usually the command automatically creates a sequence of commits.
82 This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick
83 each named commit to your working tree and the index,
84 without making any commit. In addition, when this
85 option is used, your index does not have to match the
86 HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
87 beginning state of your index.
89 This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
90 effect to your index in a row.
94 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
97 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
98 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
101 --strategy=<strategy>::
102 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
103 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
107 --strategy-option=<option>::
108 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
109 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
113 git cherry-pick master::
115 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
116 master branch and create a new commit with this change.
118 git cherry-pick ..master::
119 git cherry-pick ^HEAD master::
121 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
122 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
124 git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2::
126 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
127 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
130 git cherry-pick -n master~1 next::
132 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
133 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
134 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
137 git cherry-pick --ff ..next::
139 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
140 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
141 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that
142 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
143 commit for each new change.
145 git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin::
147 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
148 branch that touched README to the working tree and index,
149 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
152 The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
153 the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
154 again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
157 $ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
159 $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
160 $ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
162 <1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
163 In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
164 information about the conflict is written to the index and
165 working tree and no new commit results.
166 <2> summarize changes to be reconciled
167 <3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the
168 pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in
170 <4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
171 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
176 linkgit:git-revert[1]
180 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite