Merge branch 'cn/cherry-pick-range-docs'

The command line argument of "git cherry-pick maint master..next" is
just an ordinary revision range, which is unintuitive and at least
deserves documentation.

* cn/cherry-pick-range-docs:
  git-cherry-pick.txt: clarify the use of revision range notation
  Documentation: --no-walk is no-op if range is specified

Author: gitster

Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt

@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ OPTIONS
 	linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
 	Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
 	default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
-	linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
+	linkgit:git-rev-list[1]. Note that specifying a range will
+	feed all <commit>... arguments to a single revision walk
+	(see a later example that uses 'maint master..next').
 
 -e::
 --edit::
@@ -149,6 +151,15 @@ EXAMPLES
 	Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are ancestors
 	of master but not of HEAD to produce new commits.
 
+`git cherry-pick maint next ^master`::
+`git cherry-pick maint master..next`::
+
+	Apply the changes introduced by all commits that are
+	ancestors of maint or next, but not master or any of its
+	ancestors.  Note that the latter does not mean `maint` and
+	everything between `master` and `next`; specifically,
+	`maint` will not be used if it is included in `master`.
+
 `git cherry-pick master~4 master~2`::
 
 	Apply the changes introduced by the fifth and third last

Documentation/rev-list-options.txt

@@ -622,6 +622,7 @@ These options are mostly targeted for packing of git repositories.
 --no-walk::
 
 	Only show the given revs, but do not traverse their ancestors.
+	This has no effect if a range is specified.
 
 --do-walk::