“git cherry-pick” adds “Conflicts:” line to commit message

Question

Whenever I use git cherry-pick and there are conflicts, after resolving the conflicts and running git cherry-pick --continue , the commit message has an added Conflicts: section, like so:

<The original commit message>

Conflicts:
    <path of first file that had a conflict>
    ...
    <path of last file that had a conflict>

# The usual comment with instructions

The Conflicts: section is not commented out, so if left unchanged, it becomes a part of the actual commit message of the cherry-picked commit.

So, two questions about this:

1. Why is this section useful at all? If I resolved the conflicts, why is the fact that they existed relevant?

2. Is there a way to disable this behaviour? I find it annoying to have to delete that section manually every time.

EDIT : Since a comment suggests that the behaviour may be dependent on the version of git: I'm using git 2.1.4, which is the version present in Debian stable's repositories.

Answer 1

For your questions:

1. It mainly caused there still have conflicts. You can use git status to check. If there have conflicts, you should modify and save the conflict files, then use git add . and git commit . Also you can update git to latest version.

2. Yes, you can use -X to solve the conflicts automatically. Such as git cherry-pick SHA -X [ours|theirs] . ours means to keep changes from current branch, theirs means keep changes from the SHA.