diff --git a/lib/landing_session.js b/lib/landing_session.js
index 87311dbd..31be0c1c 100644
--- a/lib/landing_session.js
+++ b/lib/landing_session.js
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class LandingSession extends Session {
     this.lint = lint;
     this.autorebase = autorebase;
     this.fixupAll = fixupAll;
+    this.expectedCommitShas = [];
   }
 
   get argv() {
@@ -44,6 +45,8 @@ class LandingSession extends Session {
   async start(metadata) {
     const { cli } = this;
     this.startLanding();
+    this.expectedCommitShas =
+      metadata.data.commits.map(({ commit }) => commit.oid);
     const status = metadata.status ? 'should be ready' : 'is not ready';
     // NOTE(mmarchini): default answer is yes. If --yes is given, we need to be
     // more careful though, and we change the default to the result of our
@@ -78,34 +81,46 @@ class LandingSession extends Session {
   }
 
   async downloadAndPatch() {
-    const { cli, req, repo, owner, prid } = this;
+    const { cli, repo, owner, prid, expectedCommitShas } = this;
 
-    // TODO(joyeecheung): restore previously downloaded patches
     cli.startSpinner(`Downloading patch for ${prid}`);
-    const patch = await req.text(
-      `https://github.com/${owner}/${repo}/pull/${prid}.patch`);
-    this.savePatch(patch);
-    cli.stopSpinner(`Downloaded patch to ${this.patchPath}`);
+    await runAsync('git', [
+      'fetch', `https://github.com/${owner}/${repo}.git`,
+      `refs/pull/${prid}/merge`]);
+    // We fetched the commit that would result if we used `git merge`.
+    // ^1 and ^2 refer to the PR base and the PR head, respectively.
+    const [base, head] = await runAsync('git',
+      ['rev-parse', 'FETCH_HEAD^1', 'FETCH_HEAD^2'],
+      { captureStdout: 'lines' });
+    const commitShas = await runAsync('git',
+      ['rev-list', `${base}..${head}`],
+      { captureStdout: 'lines' });
+    cli.stopSpinner(`Fetched commits as ${shortSha(base)}..${shortSha(head)}`);
     cli.separator();
-    // TODO: check that patches downloaded match metadata.commits
+
+    const mismatchedCommits = [
+      ...commitShas.filter((sha) => !expectedCommitShas.includes(sha))
+        .map((sha) => `Unexpected commit ${sha}`),
+      ...expectedCommitShas.filter((sha) => !commitShas.includes(sha))
+        .map((sha) => `Missing commit ${sha}`)
+    ].join('\n');
+    if (mismatchedCommits.length > 0) {
+      cli.error(`Mismatched commits:\n${mismatchedCommits}`);
+      process.exit(1);
+    }
+
+    const commitInfo = { base, head, shas: commitShas };
+    this.saveCommitInfo(commitInfo);
+
     try {
-      await forceRunAsync('git', ['am', this.patchPath], {
+      await forceRunAsync('git', ['cherry-pick', `${base}..${head}`], {
         ignoreFailure: false
       });
     } catch (ex) {
-      const should3Way = await cli.prompt(
-        'The normal `git am` failed. Do you want to retry with 3-way merge?');
-      if (should3Way) {
-        await forceRunAsync('git', ['am', '--abort']);
-        await runAsync('git', [
-          'am',
-          '-3',
-          this.patchPath
-        ]);
-      } else {
-        cli.error('Failed to apply patches');
-        process.exit(1);
-      }
+      await forceRunAsync('git', ['cherry-pick', '--abort']);
+
+      cli.error('Failed to apply patches');
+      process.exit(1);
     }
 
     // Check for and maybe assign any unmarked deprecations in the codebase.
@@ -126,7 +141,7 @@ class LandingSession extends Session {
     }
 
     cli.ok('Patches applied');
-    return patch;
+    return commitInfo;
   }
 
   getRebaseSuggestion(subjects) {
@@ -173,21 +188,13 @@ class LandingSession extends Session {
     }
   }
 
-  async tryCompleteLanding(patch) {
+  async tryCompleteLanding(commitInfo) {
     const { cli } = this;
+    const subjects = await runAsync('git',
+      ['log', '--pretty=format:%s', `${commitInfo.base}..${commitInfo.head}`],
+      { captureStdout: 'lines' });
 
-    const subjects = patch.match(/Subject: \[PATCH.*?\].*/g);
-    if (!subjects) {
-      cli.warn('Cannot get number of commits in the patch. ' +
-        'It seems to be malformed');
-      return;
-    }
-
-    // XXX(joyeecheung) we cannot guarantee that no one will put a subject
-    // line in the commit message but that seems unlikely (some deps update
-    // might do that).
-    if (subjects.length === 1) {
-      // assert(subjects[0].startsWith('Subject: [PATCH]'))
+    if (commitInfo.shas.length === 1) {
       const shouldAmend = await cli.prompt(
         'There is only one commit in this PR.\n' +
         'do you want to amend the commit message?');
@@ -247,7 +254,7 @@ class LandingSession extends Session {
     }
     await this.tryResetBranch();
 
-    const patch = await this.downloadAndPatch();
+    const commitInfo = await this.downloadAndPatch();
 
     const cleanLint = await this.validateLint();
     if (cleanLint === LINT_RESULTS.FAILED) {
@@ -280,7 +287,7 @@ class LandingSession extends Session {
 
     this.startAmending();
 
-    await this.tryCompleteLanding(patch);
+    await this.tryCompleteLanding(commitInfo);
   }
 
   async amend() {
@@ -407,13 +414,13 @@ class LandingSession extends Session {
     }
     if (this.isApplying()) {
       // We're still resolving conflicts.
-      if (this.amInProgress()) {
-        cli.log('Looks like you are resolving a `git am` conflict');
+      if (this.cherryPickInProgress()) {
+        cli.log('Looks like you are resolving a `git cherry-pick` conflict');
         cli.log('Please run `git status` for help');
       } else {
         // Conflicts has been resolved - amend.
         this.startAmending();
-        return this.tryCompleteLanding(this.patch);
+        return this.tryCompleteLanding(this.commitInfo);
       }
       return;
     }
diff --git a/lib/run.js b/lib/run.js
index 63ae10d2..12477907 100644
--- a/lib/run.js
+++ b/lib/run.js
@@ -4,15 +4,24 @@ const { spawn, spawnSync } = require('child_process');
 
 const IGNORE = '__ignore__';
 
-function runAsyncBase(cmd, args, options = {}) {
+function runAsyncBase(cmd, args, {
+  ignoreFailure = true,
+  spawnArgs,
+  captureStdout = false
+} = {}) {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     const child = spawn(cmd, args, Object.assign({
       cwd: process.cwd(),
-      stdio: 'inherit'
-    }, options.spawnArgs));
+      stdio: captureStdout ? ['inherit', 'pipe', 'inherit'] : 'inherit'
+    }, spawnArgs));
+    let stdout;
+    if (captureStdout) {
+      stdout = '';
+      child.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
+      child.stdout.on('data', (chunk) => { stdout += chunk; });
+    }
     child.on('close', (code) => {
       if (code !== 0) {
-        const { ignoreFailure = true } = options;
         if (ignoreFailure) {
           return reject(new Error(IGNORE));
         }
@@ -21,7 +30,11 @@ function runAsyncBase(cmd, args, options = {}) {
         err.messageOnly = true;
         return reject(err);
       }
-      return resolve();
+      if (captureStdout === 'lines') {
+        stdout = stdout.split(/\r?\n/g);
+        if (stdout[stdout.length - 1] === '') stdout.pop();
+      }
+      return resolve(stdout);
     });
   });
 }
diff --git a/lib/session.js b/lib/session.js
index 9ba61a5b..ab7fc020 100644
--- a/lib/session.js
+++ b/lib/session.js
@@ -171,12 +171,12 @@ class Session {
     return readFile(this.metadataPath);
   }
 
-  get patchPath() {
-    return path.join(this.pullDir, 'patch');
+  get commitInfoPath() {
+    return path.join(this.pullDir, 'commit-info');
   }
 
-  get patch() {
-    return readFile(this.patchPath);
+  get commitInfo() {
+    return readJson(this.commitInfoPath);
   }
 
   getMessagePath(rev) {
@@ -196,8 +196,8 @@ class Session {
     writeFile(this.metadataPath, status.metadata);
   }
 
-  savePatch(patch) {
-    writeFile(this.patchPath, patch);
+  saveCommitInfo(commitInfo) {
+    writeJson(this.commitInfoPath, commitInfo);
   }
 
   saveMessage(rev, message) {
@@ -218,20 +218,21 @@ class Session {
     if (this.session.state === AMENDING) {
       return true;
     } else if (this.isApplying()) {
-      return !this.amInProgress();
+      return !this.cherryPickInProgress();
     } else {
       return false;
     }
   }
 
   readyToFinal() {
-    if (this.amInProgress()) {
+    if (this.amInProgress() || this.cherryPickInProgress()) {
       return false;  // git am/rebase in progress
     }
     return this.session.state === AMENDING;
   }
 
   // Refs: https://github.com/git/git/blob/99de064/git-rebase.sh#L208-L228
+  // XXX: This may be unused at this point?
   amInProgress() {
     const amPath = path.join(this.gitDir, 'rebase-apply', 'applying');
     return fs.existsSync(amPath);
@@ -247,6 +248,11 @@ class Session {
     return fs.existsSync(normalRebasePath) || fs.existsSync(mergeRebasePath);
   }
 
+  cherryPickInProgress() {
+    const cpPath = path.join(this.gitDir, 'CHERRY_PICK_HEAD');
+    return fs.existsSync(cpPath);
+  }
+
   restore() {
     const sess = this.session;
     if (sess.prid) {
@@ -269,6 +275,19 @@ class Session {
     }
   }
 
+  async tryAbortCherryPick() {
+    const { cli } = this;
+    if (!this.cherryPickInProgress()) {
+      return cli.ok('No git cherry-pick in progress');
+    }
+    const shouldAbortCherryPick = await cli.prompt(
+      'Abort previous git cherry-pick sessions?');
+    if (shouldAbortCherryPick) {
+      await forceRunAsync('git', ['cherry-pick', '--abort']);
+      cli.ok('Aborted previous git cherry-pick sessions');
+    }
+  }
+
   async tryAbortRebase() {
     const { cli } = this;
     if (!this.rebaseInProgress()) {
@@ -284,6 +303,7 @@ class Session {
 
   async tryResetBranch() {
     const { cli, upstream, branch } = this;
+    await this.tryAbortCherryPick();
     await this.tryAbortAm();
     await this.tryAbortRebase();