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git-cherry-pick: improve description of -x.
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Reword the first sentence of the description of -x, in order to
make it easier to read and understand.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
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Ralf Wildenhues authored and Shawn O. Pearce committed Oct 22, 2007
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message prior committing.

-x::
Cause the command to append which commit was
cherry-picked after the original commit message when
making a commit. Do not use this option if you are
cherry-picking from your private branch because the
information is useless to the recipient. If on the
When recording the commit, append to the original commit
message a note that indicates which commit this change
was cherry-picked from. Append the note only for cherry
picks without conflicts. Do not use this option if
you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
the information is useless to the recipient. If on the
other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
maintenance branch for an older release from a
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