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
14 'git cherry-pick' --quit
15 'git cherry-pick' --abort
24 Given one or more existing commits, apply the change each one
25 introduces, recording a new commit for each. This requires your
26 working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).
28 When it is not obvious how to apply a change, the following
31 1. The current branch and `HEAD` pointer stay at the last commit
33 2. The `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` ref is set to point at the commit that
34 introduced the change that is difficult to apply.
35 3. Paths in which the change applied cleanly are updated both
36 in the index file and in your working tree.
37 4. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three
38 versions, as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of
39 linkgit:git-merge[1]. The working tree files will include
40 a description of the conflict bracketed by the usual
41 conflict markers `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`.
42 5. No other modifications are made.
44 See linkgit:git-merge[1] for some hints on resolving such
50 Commits to cherry-pick.
51 For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
52 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
53 Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
54 default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
55 linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will
56 feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk
57 (see a later example that uses 'maint master..next').
61 With this option, 'git cherry-pick' will let you edit the commit
62 message prior to committing.
65 When recording the commit, append a line that says
66 "(cherry picked from commit ...)" to the original commit
67 message in order to indicate which commit this change was
68 cherry-picked from. This is done only for cherry
69 picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
70 you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
71 the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
72 other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
73 visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
74 maintenance branch for an older release from a
75 development branch), adding this information can be
79 It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
80 described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the
81 default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
84 --mainline parent-number::
85 Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which
86 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
87 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
88 the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
89 relative to the specified parent.
93 Usually the command automatically creates a sequence of commits.
94 This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick
95 each named commit to your working tree and the index,
96 without making any commit. In addition, when this
97 option is used, your index does not have to match the
98 HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
99 beginning state of your index.
101 This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
102 effect to your index in a row.
106 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
107 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
110 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
111 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
112 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
113 stuck to the option without a space.
116 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
117 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
121 By default, cherry-picking an empty commit will fail,
122 indicating that an explicit invocation of `git commit
123 --allow-empty` is required. This option overrides that
124 behavior, allowing empty commits to be preserved automatically
125 in a cherry-pick. Note that when "--ff" is in effect, empty
126 commits that meet the "fast-forward" requirement will be kept
127 even without this option. Note also, that use of this option only
128 keeps commits that were initially empty (i.e. the commit recorded the
129 same tree as its parent). Commits which are made empty due to a
130 previous commit are dropped. To force the inclusion of those commits
131 use `--keep-redundant-commits`.
133 --allow-empty-message::
134 By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail.
135 This option overrides that behaviour, allowing commits with empty
136 messages to be cherry picked.
138 --keep-redundant-commits::
139 If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the
140 current history, it will become empty. By default these
141 redundant commits cause `cherry-pick` to stop so the user can
142 examine the commit. This option overrides that behavior and
143 creates an empty commit object. Implies `--allow-empty`.
145 --strategy=<strategy>::
146 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
147 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
151 --strategy-option=<option>::
152 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
153 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
155 SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
156 ---------------------
157 include::sequencer.txt[]
161 `git cherry-pick master`::
163 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
164 master branch and create a new commit with this change.
166 `git cherry-pick ..master`::
167 `git cherry-pick ^HEAD master`::
169 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
170 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
172 `git cherry-pick maint next ^master`::
173 `git cherry-pick maint master..next`::
175 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are
176 ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its
177 ancestors. Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and
178 everything between `master` and `next`; specifically,
179 `maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`.
181 `git cherry-pick master~4 master~2`::
183 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
184 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
187 `git cherry-pick -n master~1 next`::
189 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
190 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
191 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
194 `git cherry-pick --ff ..next`::
196 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
197 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
198 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that
199 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
200 commit for each new change.
202 `git rev-list --reverse master -- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`::
204 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
205 branch that touched README to the working tree and index,
206 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
209 The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
210 the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
211 again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
214 $ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
216 $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
217 $ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
219 <1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
220 In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
221 information about the conflict is written to the index and
222 working tree and no new commit results.
223 <2> summarize changes to be reconciled
224 <3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the
225 pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in
227 <4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
228 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
233 linkgit:git-revert[1]
237 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite