On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 3:46 AM, Sergey Organov <sorga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > $ git help cherry-pick > > -m parent-number, --mainline parent-number > Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not > know which side of the merge should be considered the > mainline. > > Isn't it always the case that "mainline" is the first parent, as that's > how "git merge" happens to work? >
First-parent will be whatever commit you were sitting on when you typed "git merge". If you're sitting on your branch and you type "git fetch; git merge origin/master", then "mainline" will be 2nd parent. Same happens if you type "git pull". Further reading here: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/04/stop-foxtrots-now/ "git revert -m" also has the same problem. > Is, say, "-m 2" ever useful? > > -- > Sergey
