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[git-cherry-pick recipe] The example in docs produces a misleading result

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
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Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the recipe at docs/recipes/git-cherry-pick.html and reproduce the linked cherry-picking example using the behavior described in the issue. Compare the result with the referenced event_handlers.py source and backport-test-repo commit history; the documentation is done when the example no longer misleadingly includes earlier commits or clearly explains the observed result.

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I was following https://www.pygit2.org/recipes/git-cherry-pick.html#cherry-picking-a-commit-without-a-working-copy and it seemed to work at first but then I noticed that it pulls in extra commits that I've never wanted.

I think that this example is incomplete.

My src (https://github.com/sanitizers/patchback-github-app/blob/92934c6/patchback/event_handlers.py#L66-L133) should produce a branch with one cherry-picked commit but instead gets a whole bunch of earlier commits too: https://github.com/webknjaz/backport-test-repo/pull/13/commits.

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