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>...
11 'git cherry-pick' --reset
16 Given one or more existing commits, apply the change each one
17 introduces, recording a new commit for each. This requires your
18 working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).
20 When it is not obvious how to apply a change, the following
23 1. The current branch and `HEAD` pointer stay at the last commit
25 2. The `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` ref is set to point at the commit that
26 introduced the change that is difficult to apply.
27 3. Paths in which the change applied cleanly are updated both
28 in the index file and in your working tree.
29 4. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three
30 versions, as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of
31 linkgit:git-merge[1]. The working tree files will include
32 a description of the conflict bracketed by the usual
33 conflict markers `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`.
34 5. No other modifications are made.
36 See linkgit:git-merge[1] for some hints on resolving such
42 Commits to cherry-pick.
43 For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
44 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
45 Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
46 default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
47 linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
51 With this option, 'git cherry-pick' will let you edit the commit
52 message prior to committing.
55 When recording the commit, append a line that says
56 "(cherry picked from commit ...)" to the original commit
57 message in order to indicate which commit this change was
58 cherry-picked from. This is done only for cherry
59 picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
60 you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
61 the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
62 other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
63 visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
64 maintenance branch for an older release from a
65 development branch), adding this information can be
69 It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
70 described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the
71 default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
74 --mainline parent-number::
75 Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which
76 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
77 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
78 the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
79 relative to the specified parent.
83 Usually the command automatically creates a sequence of commits.
84 This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick
85 each named commit to your working tree and the index,
86 without making any commit. In addition, when this
87 option is used, your index does not have to match the
88 HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
89 beginning state of your index.
91 This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
92 effect to your index in a row.
96 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
99 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
100 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
103 --strategy=<strategy>::
104 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
105 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
109 --strategy-option=<option>::
110 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
111 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
113 SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
114 ---------------------
115 include::sequencer.txt[]
119 git cherry-pick master::
121 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
122 master branch and create a new commit with this change.
124 git cherry-pick ..master::
125 git cherry-pick ^HEAD master::
127 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
128 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
130 git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2::
132 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
133 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
136 git cherry-pick -n master~1 next::
138 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
139 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
140 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
143 git cherry-pick --ff ..next::
145 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
146 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
147 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that
148 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
149 commit for each new change.
151 git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin::
153 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
154 branch that touched README to the working tree and index,
155 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
158 The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
159 the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
160 again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
163 $ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
165 $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
166 $ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
168 <1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
169 In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
170 information about the conflict is written to the index and
171 working tree and no new commit results.
172 <2> summarize changes to be reconciled
173 <3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the
174 pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in
176 <4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
177 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
182 linkgit:git-revert[1]
186 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite