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| author |  Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2011-05-02 23:02:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> | 2011-05-02 23:02:15 -0500 |
| commit | 59445b0b02c731872c8665ac7e9cf1226fa616e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 93922cf13ed9c62859dac628fa7e376977a23d24 /Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt | |
| parent | Revert "t0081 (line-buffer): add buffering tests" (diff) | |
| parent | Git 1.7.5 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-59445b0b02c731872c8665ac7e9cf1226fa616e4.tar.xz | |
Merge commit 'v1.7.5' into svn-fe
* commit 'v1.7.5': (436 commits)
Git 1.7.5
Git 1.7.5-rc3
Git 1.7.4.5
git-svn.txt: Document --mergeinfo
Revert "run-command: prettify -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE workaround"
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index 749d68a72b..01db83039f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt @@ -16,6 +16,25 @@ Given one or more existing commits, apply the change each one introduces, recording a new commit for each. This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit). +When it is not obvious how to apply a change, the following +happens: + +1. The current branch and `HEAD` pointer stay at the last commit + successfully made. +2. The `CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` ref is set to point at the commit that + introduced the change that is difficult to apply. +3. Paths in which the change applied cleanly are updated both + in the index file and in your working tree. +4. For conflicting paths, the index file records up to three + versions, as described in the "TRUE MERGE" section of + linkgit:git-merge[1]. The working tree files will include + a description of the conflict bracketed by the usual + conflict markers `<<<<<<<` and `>>>>>>>`. +5. No other modifications are made. + +See linkgit:git-merge[1] for some hints on resolving such +conflicts. + OPTIONS ------- <commit>...:: @@ -152,14 +171,6 @@ the working tree. spending extra time to avoid mistakes based on incorrectly matching context lines. -Author ------- -Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> - -Documentation --------------- -Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. - SEE ALSO -------- linkgit:git-revert[1] |