git cherry-pick feature request

Junio,

I have added a feature on the "new" branch of gitk which allows the user to cherry-pick commits on to the head of the current branch. Currently I am using 'sh -c "git cherry-pick -r $id 2>&1"' for this.

The reason for the "2>&1" is that git cherry-pick writes stuff to stderr even when there is no error, and the Tcl exec command assumes that if the command writes to stderr that it failed somehow.

Also, if the merge fails, git cherry-pick leaves the commit partially merged rather than restoring the original state.

Could I have a flag to git cherry-pick (-q for quiet, maybe) that tells it not to print anything if the command succeeds? Could I also have a flag that tells it to clean up if the merge fails and leave the tree in its previous state?

Or is there some other git command that already does all this that I should use instead?

Thanks, Paul.