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[PATCH v3 7/9] Documentation: describe new cherry-pick --ff option

From
Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date
Mar 3, 2010, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20100303201146.23506.32147.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To
<20100303201046.23506.32653.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 78f4714..d71607a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-cherry-pick - Apply the change introduced by an existing commit
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] <commit>
+'git cherry-pick' [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] [--ff] <commit>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ effect to your index in a row.
 --signoff::
 	Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
 
+--ff::
+	If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
+	cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
+	be performed.
 
 Author
 ------

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Message 8 of 10 in “add --ff option to cherry-pick”
  1. 0/9 add --ff option to cherry-pickChristian Couder, Mar 3, 2010
  2. 1/9 reset: refactor updating heads into a static functionChristian Couder, Mar 3, 2010
  3. 2/9 reset: refactor reseting in its own functionChristian Couder, Mar 3, 2010
  4. 3/9 reset: make reset function non static and declare it in "reset.h"Christian Couder, Mar 3, 2010
  5. 4/9 revert: refactor checking parent in a check_parent() functionChristian Couder, Mar 3, 2010
  6. 5/9 revert: add --ff option to allow fast forward when cherry-pickingChristian Couder, Mar 3, 2010
  7. 6/9 cherry-pick: add tests for new --ff optionChristian Couder, Mar 3, 2010
  8. 7/9 Documentation: describe new cherry-pick --ff optionChristian Couder, Mar 3, 2010
  9. 8/9 cherry-pick: add a no-op --no-ff option to future proof scriptsChristian Couder, Mar 3, 2010
  10. 9/9 rebase -i: use new --ff cherry-pick optionChristian Couder, Mar 3, 2010

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