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 a `Signed-off-by` trailer at the end of the commit message.
108 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
111 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
113 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
114 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
115 stuck to the option without a space. `--no-gpg-sign` is useful to
116 countermand both `commit.gpgSign` configuration variable, and
117 earlier `--gpg-sign`.
120 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
121 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
125 By default, cherry-picking an empty commit will fail,
126 indicating that an explicit invocation of `git commit
127 --allow-empty` is required. This option overrides that
128 behavior, allowing empty commits to be preserved automatically
129 in a cherry-pick. Note that when "--ff" is in effect, empty
130 commits that meet the "fast-forward" requirement will be kept
131 even without this option. Note also, that use of this option only
132 keeps commits that were initially empty (i.e. the commit recorded the
133 same tree as its parent). Commits which are made empty due to a
134 previous commit are dropped. To force the inclusion of those commits
135 use `--keep-redundant-commits`.
137 --allow-empty-message::
138 By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail.
139 This option overrides that behavior, allowing commits with empty
140 messages to be cherry picked.
142 --keep-redundant-commits::
143 If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the
144 current history, it will become empty. By default these
145 redundant commits cause `cherry-pick` to stop so the user can
146 examine the commit. This option overrides that behavior and
147 creates an empty commit object. Implies `--allow-empty`.
149 --strategy=<strategy>::
150 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
151 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
155 --strategy-option=<option>::
156 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
157 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
159 --rerere-autoupdate::
160 --no-rerere-autoupdate::
161 Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
162 result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
164 SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
165 ---------------------
166 include::sequencer.txt[]
170 `git cherry-pick master`::
172 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
173 master branch and create a new commit with this change.
175 `git cherry-pick ..master`::
176 `git cherry-pick ^HEAD master`::
178 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
179 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
181 `git cherry-pick maint next ^master`::
182 `git cherry-pick maint master..next`::
184 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are
185 ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its
186 ancestors. Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and
187 everything between `master` and `next`; specifically,
188 `maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`.
190 `git cherry-pick master~4 master~2`::
192 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
193 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
196 `git cherry-pick -n master~1 next`::
198 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
199 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
200 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
203 `git cherry-pick --ff ..next`::
205 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
206 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
207 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that
208 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
209 commit for each new change.
211 `git rev-list --reverse master -- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`::
213 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
214 branch that touched README to the working tree and index,
215 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
218 The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
219 the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
220 again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
223 $ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
225 $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
226 $ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
228 <1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
229 In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
230 information about the conflict is written to the index and
231 working tree and no new commit results.
232 <2> summarize changes to be reconciled
233 <3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the
234 pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications
235 you had in the working tree.
236 <4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
237 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly
238 matching context lines.
242 linkgit:git-revert[1]
246 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite