Git Cherry Pick — Free Git & GitHub Tutorial
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Git Cherry Pick in Git & GitHub
Cherry-picking applies one specific commit from another branch to your current branch, without merging the entire branch. It's useful when you want one fix but not everything else in that branch.
Use cherry-pick for selective backporting: if a bug fix is committed to main but you need it in the release branch too, cherry-pick that commit into the release branch.
Arjun finds a critical bug fix in main that needs to be applied to the release-v1 branch. Instead of merging all of main, he cherry-picks just that bug fix commit.
Git Cherry Pick — Syntax
git cherry-pick <commit-hash>
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