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).
22 Commits to cherry-pick.
23 For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
24 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
25 Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
26 default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
27 linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
31 With this option, 'git cherry-pick' will let you edit the commit
32 message prior to committing.
35 When recording the commit, append to the original commit
36 message a note that indicates which commit this change
37 was cherry-picked from. Append the note only for cherry
38 picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
39 you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
40 the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
41 other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
42 visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
43 maintenance branch for an older release from a
44 development branch), adding this information can be
48 It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
49 described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the
50 default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
53 --mainline parent-number::
54 Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which
55 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
56 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
57 the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
58 relative to the specified parent.
62 Usually the command automatically creates a sequence of commits.
63 This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick
64 each named commit to your working tree and the index,
65 without making any commit. In addition, when this
66 option is used, your index does not have to match the
67 HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
68 beginning state of your index.
70 This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
71 effect to your index in a row.
75 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
78 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
79 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
82 --strategy=<strategy>::
83 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
84 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
88 --strategy-option=<option>::
89 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
90 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
94 git cherry-pick master::
96 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
97 master branch and create a new commit with this change.
99 git cherry-pick ..master::
100 git cherry-pick ^HEAD master::
102 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
103 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
105 git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2::
107 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
108 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
111 git cherry-pick -n master~1 next::
113 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
114 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
115 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
118 git cherry-pick --ff ..next::
120 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
121 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
122 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that
123 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
124 commit for each new change.
126 git rev-list --reverse master \-- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin::
128 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
129 branch that touched README to the working tree and index,
130 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
133 The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
134 the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
135 again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
138 $ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
140 $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
141 $ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
143 <1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
144 In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
145 information about the conflict is written to the index and
146 working tree and no new commit results.
147 <2> summarize changes to be reconciled
148 <3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the
149 pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in
151 <4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
152 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
157 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
161 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
165 linkgit:git-revert[1]
169 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite