6 git-cherry-pick - Apply the changes introduced by some existing commits
11 'git cherry-pick' [-q] [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] [--ff]
12 [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
13 'git cherry-pick' --continue
14 'git cherry-pick' --skip
15 'git cherry-pick' --quit
16 'git cherry-pick' --abort
25 Given one or more existing commits, apply the change each one
26 introduces, recording a new commit for each. This requires your
27 working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).
29 When it is not obvious how to apply a change, the following
32 1. The current branch and `HEAD` pointer stay at the last commit
34 2. The `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` ref is set to point at the commit that
35 introduced the change that is difficult to apply.
36 3. Paths in which the change applied cleanly are updated both
37 in the index file and in your working tree.
38 4. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three
39 versions, as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of
40 linkgit:git-merge[1]. The working tree files will include
41 a description of the conflict bracketed by the usual
42 conflict markers `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`.
43 5. No other modifications are made.
45 See linkgit:git-merge[1] for some hints on resolving such
51 Commits to cherry-pick.
52 For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
53 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
54 Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
55 default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
56 linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will
57 feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk
58 (see a later example that uses 'maint master..next').
62 Quiet, suppress feedback messages.
66 With this option, 'git cherry-pick' will let you edit the commit
67 message prior to committing.
70 When recording the commit, append a line that says
71 "(cherry picked from commit ...)" to the original commit
72 message in order to indicate which commit this change was
73 cherry-picked from. This is done only for cherry
74 picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
75 you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
76 the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
77 other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
78 visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
79 maintenance branch for an older release from a
80 development branch), adding this information can be
84 It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
85 described above, and `-r` was to disable it. Now the
86 default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
89 --mainline parent-number::
90 Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know which
91 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
92 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
93 the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
94 relative to the specified parent.
98 Usually the command automatically creates a sequence of commits.
99 This flag applies the changes necessary to cherry-pick
100 each named commit to your working tree and the index,
101 without making any commit. In addition, when this
102 option is used, your index does not have to match the
103 HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
104 beginning state of your index.
106 This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
107 effect to your index in a row.
111 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
112 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
115 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
116 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
117 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
118 stuck to the option without a space.
121 If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
122 cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
126 By default, cherry-picking an empty commit will fail,
127 indicating that an explicit invocation of `git commit
128 --allow-empty` is required. This option overrides that
129 behavior, allowing empty commits to be preserved automatically
130 in a cherry-pick. Note that when "--ff" is in effect, empty
131 commits that meet the "fast-forward" requirement will be kept
132 even without this option. Note also, that use of this option only
133 keeps commits that were initially empty (i.e. the commit recorded the
134 same tree as its parent). Commits which are made empty due to a
135 previous commit are dropped. To force the inclusion of those commits
136 use `--keep-redundant-commits`.
138 --allow-empty-message::
139 By default, cherry-picking a commit with an empty message will fail.
140 This option overrides that behaviour, allowing commits with empty
141 messages to be cherry picked.
143 --keep-redundant-commits::
144 If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the
145 current history, it will become empty. By default these
146 redundant commits cause `cherry-pick` to stop so the user can
147 examine the commit. This option overrides that behavior and
148 creates an empty commit object. Implies `--allow-empty`.
151 Instead of failing, skip commits that are or become empty.
153 --strategy=<strategy>::
154 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
155 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
159 --strategy-option=<option>::
160 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
161 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
163 SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
164 ---------------------
165 include::sequencer.txt[]
169 `git cherry-pick master`::
171 Apply the change introduced by the commit at the tip of the
172 master branch and create a new commit with this change.
174 `git cherry-pick ..master`::
175 `git cherry-pick ^HEAD master`::
177 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
178 of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
180 `git cherry-pick maint next ^master`::
181 `git cherry-pick maint master..next`::
183 Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are
184 ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its
185 ancestors. Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and
186 everything between `master` and `next`; specifically,
187 `maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`.
189 `git cherry-pick master~4 master~2`::
191 Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
192 commits pointed to by master and create 2 new commits with
195 `git cherry-pick -n master~1 next`::
197 Apply to the working tree and the index the changes introduced
198 by the second last commit pointed to by master and by the last
199 commit pointed to by next, but do not create any commit with
202 `git cherry-pick --ff ..next`::
204 If history is linear and HEAD is an ancestor of next, update
205 the working tree and advance the HEAD pointer to match next.
206 Otherwise, apply the changes introduced by those commits that
207 are in next but not HEAD to the current branch, creating a new
208 commit for each new change.
210 `git rev-list --reverse master -- README | git cherry-pick -n --stdin`::
212 Apply the changes introduced by all commits on the master
213 branch that touched README to the working tree and index,
214 so the result can be inspected and made into a single new
217 The following sequence attempts to backport a patch, bails out because
218 the code the patch applies to has changed too much, and then tries
219 again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
222 $ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
224 $ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
225 $ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
227 <1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.
228 In this example, the patch does not apply cleanly, so
229 information about the conflict is written to the index and
230 working tree and no new commit results.
231 <2> summarize changes to be reconciled
232 <3> cancel the cherry-pick. In other words, return to the
233 pre-cherry-pick state, preserving any local modifications you had in
235 <4> try to apply the change introduced by `topic^` again,
236 spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching
241 linkgit:git-revert[1]
245 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite