> This is worth discussing, though not my preference. The picture to "pick
> cherries" has become quite common, and now that we use it for the name of
> the command, "cherry-pick", the direction of flow is quite obvious and
> strongly implied: from somewhere else to me (and not to somebody else).

What if we borrow '--onto' from rebase and make it cherry-pick --onto
<destination>?

This would keep the "pick cherries" analogy, but add the "they're not
for me" intention.
It also carries a bit of the "transplant" meaning of rebase.

-Rafael Ascensão

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