From: Kirill Likhodedov Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:00:23 GMT Subject: Re: Tracking cherry picks Message-ID: <37162B20-4758-433E-B11E-CE4B7FF27FBA@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EA02E6C.2040608@cfl.rr.com> 20.10.2011, в 18:21, Phillip Susi: > Why doesn't git-cherrypick record the original SHA1 it was picked from in the commit? It does if you specify "-x" option to cherry-pick See the man for git-cherry-pick: -x When recording the commit, append a line that says "(cherry picked from commit ...)" to the original commit message in order to indicate which commit this change was cherry-picked from. This is done only for cherry picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if you are cherry-picking from your private branch because the information is useless to the recipient. If on the other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a maintenance branch for an older release from a development branch), adding this information can be useful.