From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:46:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify that git-cherry-pick applies patches to HEAD
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In-Reply-To: <1277646745.13370.711.camel@zarniwoop.blob>

Robert Spanton <rspanton@zepler.net> writes:

> Change the description of cherry-pick to state that the given commits
> are applied to the current HEAD.  It was unclear exactly where
> cherry-pick ends up sticking the given commits.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Spanton <rspanton@zepler.net>

Almost all commit-creating commands work on nothing but the current HEAD,
and once a reader understands that repeating that "git commit" makes
commit on top of current HEAD, "git am" applies patches on top of current
HEAD, etc. will become excessively noisy, I am afraid.