What does cherry-picking a commit with Git mean?

Question

Recently, I have been asked to cherry-pick a commit.

So what does cherry-picking a commit in git mean? How do you do it?

Answer 1

If you want to merge without commit ids you can use this command

git cherry-pick master~2 master~0

The above command will merge last three commits of master from 1 to 3

If you want to do this for single commit just remove last option

git cherry-pick master~2

This way you will merge 3rd commit from the end of master.