Git AdvancedLesson 44Free preview

Git Cherrypick & Patch

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Summary

Git cherry-pick applies changes from certain commits in another branch to active branches, very useful for moving hotfixes to several branch releases. File-based alternatives are available via git format-patch and git am, which move commit as a file. git apply diff without commit.

Key points

Cherry-pick greets one commit from another branch to an active branch
Git format-patch converts commit to file .patch
Git am implementing patches while maintaining commit metadata
Git apply only apply diff to the working directory

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