In source control management, the act of selectively pulling single changes from peer to peer is called "cherry-pick".
Questions tagged [cherry-pick]
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Check if all commits to one GIT branch have been cherry picked to another
Is there some way, maybe using git log, that I can see if any of my commits in "develop" have not been cherry-picked to "otherbranch" yet?
For example I make 6 commits to develop, and cherry-pick 5 of them to otherbranch. What git log command could…
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Cherry Picking multiple commits
We have recently migrated from SVN to GIT,our code is hosted on Atlassian Bitbucket and using Atlassian SourceTree as our desktop client.
Now we have a couple of projects with branches for our code base,ie. Integration branch for UAT and Release…
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git cherry-pick -x: link in details instead of in summary
Given a commit with the message "foo", i.e. with only a summary part, I do git cherry-pick -x the_commit. The result is a new commit with message foo(cherry picked from commit eb42a6475d2c2e4fff7a1b626ce6e27eec21e886)
Now that's not good, because it…
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git: unable to cherry pick
I am caught up in a weird loop while trying to cherry pick. Here is what I do, and where the problem is.
I have two branches: mainline, and temp. I want to cherry-pick a specific commit from mainline to temp. I am doing this like follows.
git…
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Git cherry-pick: how to regenerate change id?
We use Git together with Gerrit, and commit hook is used to generate change id for Gerrit. Now question is when cherry-picking commits, the commit hook is not triggered, hence same change id may exist for different commits in different branch. Any…
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Is it possible to apply a commit to all branches in git?
I have a feeling I am asking something that can't be done in git, but I might as well ask. Is there any way that I can make one change and commit it to all branches? For instance, suppose I want to make a change to my AUTHORS file or LICENSE file.…
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how to git cherry-pick commit declaring our history contains it
I did the following:
git fetch upstream
git cherry-pick xyz
The picked commit had been applied cleanly except that in one of the files it had exactly the same changes I had already done in a previous commit so these changes were not…
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Does picking a range of commits with cherry-pick or rebase --onto end up with the same result?
I sometimes want to pick a range of commits from a different repository. I know two ways to do that.
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git checkout myBranch
git cherry-pick begin..end
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git rebase --onto myBranch begin end
I find the first version easier to remember. However,…
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Check if a commit in a branch was cherry-picked into master
Let's suppose that we have two branches: master and feature_branch.
Is there a possibility to check if each commit to the feature_branch was cherry-picked into master?
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bookkeeping cleanup of equivalent changes across branches in git
I'm attempting to cleanup a large number of topic branches, primarily so that the branch overview for master in github no longer displays spurious "n ahead" indicators in inactive topic branches due to the presence of identical changes.
Without…
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Can I Remove the Branch that I have Git Cherry Picked From
I cherry-picked a commit from a branch that I no longer want.
Is it bad form / will there be any issues if I have cherry-picked a commit that will no longer exist after I delete the branch?
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Does cherry pick create new files with lfs
I have a repo with a lot of branches and large files. I need to get a commit from another branch to my branch so I was going to use git cherry-pick but the commit includes a file that is being stored with git lfs.
What I want to know is that will…
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How can two branches be combined into a single branch based on the date of each commit?
Let's say I have a git repository that looks like this:
merge-base---A1--A2------A3------A4 (branchA)
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----------B1------B2 (branchB)
To make things simpler, let's say the commits on branchA are strictly modifications to…
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Can cherrypick all PR(pull request) from github?
Is it possible to cherry-pick all pending PR from github?
Let's say I have 4 PR from 4 different forked repositories waiting for review. I need to apply all of them to the latest source code.
PR#65 Do something
PR#61 Notify this
PR#55 Fix…
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What difference does `.git/CHERRY_PICK_HEAD` make when committing?
NB: This is a rewording of an earlier post of mine (now deleted). The rewording intends to give the post a different focus.
Upon running git cherry-pick, git reported that there was a conflict. I resolved the conflict, and then ran git…
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