* [PATCH] Fix misleading wording for git-cherry-pick
@ 2008-11-20 5:11 Bryan Drewery
0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread
From: Bryan Drewery @ 2008-11-20 5:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gitster; +Cc: git
Documentation for -n implies that -x is normally
used, however this is no longer true.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net>
---
Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt | 13 ++++++-------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 837fb08..b764130 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -55,13 +55,12 @@ OPTIONS
-n::
--no-commit::
- Usually the command automatically creates a commit with
- a commit log message stating which commit was
- cherry-picked. This flag applies the change necessary
- to cherry-pick the named commit to your working tree
- and the index, but does not make the commit. In addition,
- when this option is used, your index does not have to match
- the HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
+ Usually the command automatically creates a commit.
+ This flag applies the change necessary to cherry-pick
+ the named commit to your working tree and the index,
+ but does not make the commit. In addition, when this
+ option is used, your index does not have to match the
+ HEAD commit. The cherry-pick is done against the
beginning state of your index.
+
This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
--
1.5.6.4
^ permalink raw reply related [flat|nested] only message in thread
only message in thread, other threads:[~2008-11-20 5:50 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: (only message) (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2008-11-20 5:11 [PATCH] Fix misleading wording for git-cherry-pick Bryan Drewery
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.