-change to both trunk and branch yourself. Indicate in the release
-branch commit log that there is no need to merge the commit to the
-trunk; start the commit message with "Backport:". gitmerge.el will
-then exclude that commit from the merge to trunk.
+change to both trunk and branch yourself. It could also happen that a
+change is cherry-picked from master to the release branch, and so
+doesn't need to be merged back. In these cases, indicate in the
+release branch commit log that there is no need to merge the commit to
+the trunk; start the commit message with "Backport:". gitmerge.el
+will then exclude that commit from the merge to trunk.