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Add a cherry-pick skill for copilot #8586

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Add Copilot instructions for cherry-picking commits
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Provide cherry-pick guidance as a skill instead of instructions
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# GitHub Copilot Instructions

## Cherry-picking

Use `git cherry-pick -x` for cherry picks so the commit message records the
source commit SHA. Keep the cherry-pick commit message as git generates it by
default, and prefix the PR title with `[Cherry-Pick]`.
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