6 git-cherry-pick - Apply the changes introduced by some existing commits
11 'git cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] [--ff] <commit>...
12 'git cherry-pick' --continue
13 'git cherry-pick' --quit
14 'git cherry-pick' --abort
19 Given one or more existing commits, apply the change each one
20 introduces, recording a new commit for each. This requires your
21 working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).
23 When it is not obvious how to apply a change, the following
26 1. The current branch and `HEAD` pointer stay at the last commit
28 2. The `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` ref is set to point at the commit that
29 introduced the change that is difficult to apply.
30 3. Paths in which the change applied cleanly are updated both
31 in the index file and in your working tree.
32 4. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three
33 versions, as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of
34 linkgit:git-merge[1]. The working tree files will include
35 a description of the conflict bracketed by the usual
36 conflict markers `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`.
37 5. No other modifications are made.
39 See linkgit:git-merge[1] for some hints on resolving such
45 Commits to cherry-pick.
46 For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
47 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
48 Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
49 default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
50 linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will
51 feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk
52 (see a later example that uses 'maint master..next').
56 With this option, 'git cherry-pick' will let you edit the commit
57 message prior to committing.
60 When recording the commit, append a line that says
61 "(cherry picked from commit ...)" to the original commit
62 message in order to indicate which commit this change was
63 cherry-picked from. This is done only for cherry
64 picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
65 you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
66 the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
67 other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
68 visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
69 maintenance branch for an older release from a
70 development branch), adding this information can be
74 It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
75 described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the
76 default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
79 --mainline parent-number::
80 Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which
81 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
82 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
83 the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
84 relative to the specified parent.
88 Usually the command automatically creates a sequence of commits.
89 This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick
90 each named commit to your working tree and the index,
91 without making any commit. In addition, when this
92 option is used, your index does not have to match the
93 HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
94 beginning state of your index.
96 This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
97 effect to your index in a row.
101 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
104 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
105 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
109 By default, cherry-picking an empty commit will fail,
110 indicating that an explicit invocation of `git commit
111 --allow-empty` is required. This option overrides that
112 behavior, allowing empty commits to be preserved automatically
113 in a cherry-pick. Note that when "--ff" is in effect, empty
114 commits that meet the "fast-forward" requirement will be kept
115 even without this option. Note also, that use of this option only
116 keeps commits that were initially empty (i.e. the commit recorded the
117 same tree as its parent). Commits which are made empty due to a
118 previous commit are dropped. To force the inclusion of those commits
119 use `--keep-redundant-commits`.
121 --allow-empty-message::
122 By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail.
123 This option overrides that behaviour, allowing commits with empty
124 messages to be cherry picked.
126 --keep-redundant-commits::
127 If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the
128 current history, it will become empty. By default these
129 redundant commits are ignored. This option overrides that behavior and
130 creates an empty commit object. Implies `--allow-empty`.
132 --strategy=<strategy>::
133 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
134 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
138 --strategy-option=<option>::
139 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
140 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
142 SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
143 ---------------------
144 include::sequencer.txt[]
148 `git cherry-pick master`::
150 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
151 master branch and create a new commit with this change.
153 `git cherry-pick ..master`::
154 `git cherry-pick ^HEAD master`::
156 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
157 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
159 `git cherry-pick maint next ^master`::
160 `git cherry-pick maint master..next`::
162 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are
163 ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its
164 ancestors. Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and
165 everything between `master` and `next`; specifically,
166 `maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`.
168 `git cherry-pick master~4 master~2`::
170 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
171 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
174 `git cherry-pick -n master~1 next`::
176 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
177 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
178 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
181 `git cherry-pick --ff ..next`::
183 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
184 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
185 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that
186 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
187 commit for each new change.
189 `git rev-list --reverse master -- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`::
191 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
192 branch that touched README to the working tree and index,
193 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
196 The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
197 the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
198 again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
201 $ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
203 $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
204 $ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
206 <1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
207 In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
208 information about the conflict is written to the index and
209 working tree and no new commit results.
210 <2> summarize changes to be reconciled
211 <3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the
212 pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in
214 <4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
215 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
220 linkgit:git-revert[1]
224 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite