Git Cherry-Pick

Classic Branching

Classic Branching

Tracing

Squashing

Problems!

Problems!

Rebase?

Cherry Pick!

>replay changes, don't change commit parent<

(master) /$ git checkout -b CLOUD-2-rebased

(CLOUD-2-rebased) /$ git cherry-pick 5

<or>

(CLOUD-2-rebased) /$ git cherry-pick 5^..9

a

Cherry Pick!

(C1) /$ git checkout -b C2-rebased

(C2-rebased) /$ git cherry-pick 5

a

Cherry Pick!

  • You can go overboard if you cherry pick other people's WIP branches into your branch
  • Traceability and conflicts galor

Git Chery-Pick

By Philip Doctor

Git Chery-Pick

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