I have 2 branches, master and dev. I am on dev branch and I want to cherry-pick 1 commit from master to dev. So I did $ git cherry-pick be530cec7748e037c665bd5a585e6d9ce11bc8ad Finished one cherry-pick. But when I do git status and gitx, I don’t see my commit be530cec7748e037c665bd5a585e6d9ce11bc8ad in git history. How can I see my … Read more
Let’s imagine that we have a master branch. Then we create a newbranch git checkout -b newbranch and make two new commits to newbranch: commit1 and commit2 Then we switch to master and make cherry-pick git checkout master git cherry-pick hash_of_commit1 Looking into gitk we see that commit1 and its cherry-picked version have different hashes, … Read more
Assuming I am the maintainer of a repo, and I want to pull in changes from a contributor, there are a few possible workflows: I cherry-pick each commit from the remote (in order). In this case git records the commit as unrelated to the remote branch. I merge the branch, pulling in all changes, and … Read more
I was working with a friend on a project, and he edited a bunch of files that shouldn’t have been edited. Somehow I merged his work into mine, either when I pulled it, or when I tried to just pick the specific files out that I wanted. I’ve been looking and playing for a long … Read more
Our company is currently using a simple trunk/release/hotfixes branching model and would like advice on what branching models work best for your company or development process. Workflows / branching models Below are the three main descriptions of this I have seen, but they are partially contradicting each other or don’t go far enough to sort … Read more
I made some changes in my master branch and want to bring those upstream. When I cherry-pick the following commits. However, I get stuck on fd9f578 where git says: $ git cherry-pick fd9f578 fatal: Commit fd9f57850f6b94b7906e5bbe51a0d75bf638c74d is a merge but no -m option was given. What is git trying to tell me and is cherry-pick … Read more
If I want to merge into a Git branch the changes made only to some of the files changed in a particular commit which includes changes to multiple files, how can this be achieved? Suppose the Git commit called stuff has changes to files A, B, C, and D but I want to merge only … Read more
I’m working with a git repository that needs a commit from another git repository that knows nothing of the first. Typically I would cherry-pick using the HEAD@{x} in the reflog, but because this .git knows nothing of this reflog entry (different physical directory), how can I cherry-pick this, or can I? I’m using git-svn. My … Read more
I have two branches. Commit a is the head of one, while the other has b, c, d, e and f on top of a. I want to move c, d, e and f to first branch without commit b. Using cherry pick it is easy: checkout first branch cherry-pick one by one c to … Read more
Recently, I have been asked to cherry-pick a commit. So what does cherry-picking a commit in git mean? How do you do it? 12 Cherry picking in Git means to choose a commit from one branch and apply it onto another. This is in contrast with other ways such as merge and rebase which normally … Read more
