Apply the changes introduced by some existing commits
Our main use-case for git-cherry-pick is for taking some bugfix commits from one branch, and applying them to another (e.g. a release branch and master)
# Ensure that you're on the branch you want to copy commits to
# and the working directory is clean
$ git status
On branch cp-example
nothing to commit, working tree clean
# Bring a commit from a different branch over
git cherry-pick dea2da
# Notice that the changes, author details, and commit message are the same
# But the commit sha1 is different (and maybe the tree object)
$ git log -1 # or git show
commit b2d900443cb628f8d5c6accc271e7b66aaadb9ca
Author: Jason Madigan <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Dec 1 16:42:17 2016 +0000
name change