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  • @richard_wagnerEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Thanks. I wonder what effect that has on the git history of branch 2?

    For some reason I thought cherry picking might be the ability to take any file from any commit on any branch and copying it to the current branch.

    • BappityEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      the pasted commit will be at the top of the history for branch 2

      • @BradleyUffnerEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        That seems like it would cause chaos if those branches were ever merged.

        • Ugly BobEnglish
          6•1 year ago

          Git’s smart enough to realize it’s the same commit and skip it.

          Common workflow use of cherry-pick:

          1. Say you have a master branch and a release branch
          2. You have a bug in production (off your release branch)
          3. You have other changes in master that are not ready for release
          4. You make a commit to fix the bug and merge to master, run CI and verify it’s fixed
          5. Cherry pick the change to the release branch and release as normal
          6. Merge with master before next release to make sure you can cut a new release

          All this works without issue.