diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt index 1c03c792b0be98..1147c71da605c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt +++ 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=::