git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation
When given a set of commits, cherry-pick will apply the changes for all of them. Specifying a simple range will also work as expected. This can lead the user to think that git cherry-pick A B..C may apply A and then B..C, but that is not what happens. Instead the revs are given to a single invocation of rev-list, which will consider A and C as positive revs and B as a negative one. The commit A will not be used if it is an ancestor of B. Add a note about this and add an example with this particular syntax, which has shown up on the list a few times. Signed-off-by: Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ OPTIONS
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linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
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Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
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default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
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linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
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linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will
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feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk
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(see a later example that uses 'maint master..next').
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-e::
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@ -130,6 +132,15 @@ EXAMPLES
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Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
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of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
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`git cherry-pick maint next ^master`::
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`git cherry-pick maint master..next`::
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Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are
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ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its
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ancestors. Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and
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everything between `master` and `next`; specifically,
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`maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`.
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`git cherry-pick master{tilde}4 master{tilde}2`::
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Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last
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