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Could we please make "cherry-pick" not add the message by default?

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Oct 6, 2006, 00:14 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0610051711310.3952@g5.osdl.org>

It appears that more and more people are finding "git cherry-pick", and we now have a number of totally inane

	cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit

messages in the kernel logs, because I don't want to just re-cherry-pick them and edit peoples logs.

Those messages not only make no grammatical sense (you'd say "commit X" rather than "X commit"), but they have no point. The original commit is not reachable and makes no sense any more, and that's actually likely to always be the common case.

So could we just (a) fix the message word order to make sense and (b) make it only happen if people explicitly ask for it, rather than by default?

		Linus
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