git-cherry-pick.txt: do not use 'ORIG_HEAD' in example
Commit 67ac1e1d57 (cherry-pick/revert: add support for -X/--strategy-option, 2010-12-10) added an example to the documentation of 'git cherry-pick'. This example mentions how to abort a failed cherry-pick and retry with an additional merge strategy option. The command used in the example to abort the cherry-pick is 'git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD', but cherry-pick does not write 'ORIG_HEAD' before starting its operation. So this command would checkout a commit unrelated to what was at HEAD when the user invoked cherry-pick. Use 'git cherry-pick --abort' instead. Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> Acked-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ again, this time exercising more care about matching up context lines.
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$ git cherry-pick topic^ <1>
$ git diff <2>
-$ git reset --merge ORIG_HEAD <3>
+$ git cherry-pick --abort <3>
$ git cherry-pick -Xpatience topic^ <4>
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<1> apply the change that would be shown by `git show topic^`.