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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-04-21 12:12:21 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-04-21 12:12:21 -0700
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Merge branch 'jk/cherry-pick-docfix' into maint
* jk/cherry-pick-docfix: cherry-pick: fix docs describing handling of empty commits
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ effect to your index in a row.
--keep-redundant-commits::
If a commit being cherry picked duplicates a commit already in the
current history, it will become empty. By default these
- redundant commits are ignored. This option overrides that behavior and
+ redundant commits cause `cherry-pick` to stop so the user can
+ examine the commit. This option overrides that behavior and
creates an empty commit object. Implies `--allow-empty`.
--strategy=<strategy>::