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 a line that says
55 "(cherry picked from commit ...)" to the original commit
56 message in order to indicate which commit this change was
57 cherry-picked from. This is done only for cherry
58 picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
59 you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
60 the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
61 other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
62 visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
63 maintenance branch for an older release from a
64 development branch), adding this information can be
68 It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
69 described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the
70 default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
73 --mainline parent-number::
74 Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which
75 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
76 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
77 the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
78 relative to the specified parent.
82 Usually the command automatically creates a sequence of commits.
83 This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick
84 each named commit to your working tree and the index,
85 without making any commit. In addition, when this
86 option is used, your index does not have to match the
87 HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
88 beginning state of your index.
90 This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
91 effect to your index in a row.
95 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
98 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
99 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
102 --strategy=<strategy>::
103 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
104 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
108 --strategy-option=<option>::
109 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
110 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
114 git cherry-pick master::
116 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
117 master branch and create a new commit with this change.
119 git cherry-pick ..master::
120 git cherry-pick ^HEAD master::
122 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
123 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
125 git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2::
127 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
128 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
131 git cherry-pick -n master~1 next::
133 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
134 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
135 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
138 git cherry-pick --ff ..next::
140 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
141 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
142 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that
143 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
144 commit for each new change.
146 git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin::
148 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
149 branch that touched README to the working tree and index,
150 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
153 The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
154 the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
155 again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
158 $ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
160 $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
161 $ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
163 <1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
164 In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
165 information about the conflict is written to the index and
166 working tree and no new commit results.
167 <2> summarize changes to be reconciled
168 <3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the
169 pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in
171 <4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
172 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
177 linkgit:git-revert[1]
181 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite