I think you produced the patchset against the wrong commit.
Try 

  git format-patch origin

or

  git format-patch LAST-UPSTREAM-COMMIT

where you replace LAST-UPSTREAM-COMMIT as appropriate.

A pitfall is to write

  git format-patch YOUR-FIRST-COMMIT

then you'd omit your first commit, which is probably what happened.

> I also ran a strange command - "git cherrypick", when I was trying to
> figure out how to patch my commits.

Git cherrypick allows you to apply specific commits on top of the
current HEAD.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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