STG-PICK(1)

💅 STG-PICK(1) — the StGit Manual, but make it group-chat ✨

okay so bestie, gather round 🫶 this is stg-pick, one of the little icons of the StGit suite, and it's literally here to help you yank patches from other branches (or straight-up commit objects) into your current series. no cap, it's giving main character energy 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

stg-pick — import a patch from another branch or a commit object 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

stg pick [OPTIONS] <source>...
stg pick [OPTIONS] [--name NAME] [--parent COMMITTISH] <source>
stg pick [OPTIONS] --fold [--file PATH]... <source>...
stg pick [OPTIONS] --update <source>...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So what does it do? It imports one or more patches from another branch or commit object into your current series 💖 that's the whole vibe.

By default, the imported patch's name is reused — like, it keeps its own name, iconic — but you can override it with the --name option if you're feeling ✨creative✨. And a commit object can be reverted with the --revert option, which is lowkey so useful.

When you're using the --expose option, the format of the commit message is determined by the stgit.pick.expose-format configuration option 👀 this option is a format string, exactly the kind you'd hand to the --pretty option of git-show(1). The default is:

format:%B%n(imported from commit %H)

which appends the commit hash of the picked commit to the patch's commit message. cute, right? 🥰

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -B <branch>, --ref-branch=<branch> — pick patches from <branch> 🌿
• -r, --revert — revert the given commit object, undoing its whole deal 🙈
• -x, --expose — append the imported commit id to the patch log 📝
• --noapply — keep the imported patch unapplied (chill, it just sits there) 💤
• -n <name>, --name=<name> — use <name> for the patch name, your call bestie ✨
• -p <committish>, --parent=<committish> — use <committish> as parent 🧬
• --committer-date-is-author-date — instead of using the current time as the committer date, use the author date of the commit as the committer date. time travel, but make it git ⏰
• --fold — fold the commit object into the current patch 🫶
• --update — like fold, but only update the current patch's files 👑
• -f <path>, --file=<path> — only fold the given file (and yes, you may use this multiple times, go off) 🍓

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🌈 STGIT 🌈

Part of the StGit suite — see stg(1) 💜

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fr fr, this whole page is from StGit 2.7.0, dated 10/17/2026 — slay, periodt 💅✨