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Git Essentials ??? Second Edition

You're reading from   Git Essentials ??? Second Edition Create, merge, and distribute code with Git, the most powerful and flexible versioning system available

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120723
Length 238 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Ferdinando Santacroce Ferdinando Santacroce
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Cherry picking

Sometimes you don't want to merge two branches, but simply your desire is to apply the same changes in a commit on top to another branch. This situation is very common when working on bugs: you fix a bug in a branch, and then you want to apply the same fix on top of another branch.

Git has a convenient way to do it; this is the git cherry-pick command.

Let's play with it a little bit.

Assume you want to pick the blackberry from the berries branch, and then apply it into the master branch; this is the way:

[1] ~/grocery (master)
$ git cherry-pick ef6c382
error: could not apply ef6c382... Add a blackberry
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
hint: and commit the result with 'git commit'

For the argument, you usually specify the hash of the...

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