Some of you heard me complain about commit messages resulting from git cherry-pick which allows me to apply patches from CDK trunk to a branch, without needing to do a full merge of what happens in trunk. The commit messages would be identical, which made it seem that those original messages were mine.

However, this is how I can modify those messages:

$ git commit --amend

This allows me to convert a mere refactored a method into Applied patch from trunk (rev 12479): [shk3] refactored a method.

This post was originally posted as https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2008/10/cherry-picking-commits-from-cdk-trunk.html.