From 77e5a32212e2d517240d4ebd3ce826db5ea88c87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlos Cordoba <ccordoba12@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 11:15:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Some small fixes to the Maintenance instructions

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 MAINTENANCE.md | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MAINTENANCE.md b/MAINTENANCE.md
index 0f1ffa6bf03..147a56094a8 100644
--- a/MAINTENANCE.md
+++ b/MAINTENANCE.md
@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ These are some instructions meant for maintainers of this repo.
 * If `meeseeksdev` fails to do the backport, you need to manually open a PR against the stable branch to do it with the following actions:
 
     - `git checkout 6.x`
-    - `git checkout -b backport-of-pr-<number>`
-    - `git cherry-pick <commit that was merged to master for that PR>`
+    - `git checkout -b backport-pr-<number>`
+    - `git cherry-pick -m 1 <commit that was merged to master for that PR>`
     - Solve conflicts
 
 * If a PR that involved updating our spyder-kernels subrepo and needs to be included in the stable branch (e.g. `6.x`), you need to manually create a PR against it with the following actions:
 
     - `git checkout 6.x`
-    - `git checkout -b backport-of-pr-<number>`
-    - `git cherry-pick <commit that was merged to master>`
+    - `git checkout -b backport-pr-<number>`
+    - `git cherry-pick -m 1 <commit that was merged to master for that PR>`
     - `git reset -- external-deps/spyder-kernels`
     - `git checkout -- external-deps/spyder-kernels`
     - `git commit` with the files left