How to cherry-pick a commit from another repository

jmalvarez

José Miguel Álvarez Vañó

Posted on October 11, 2022

How to cherry-pick a commit from another repository

To cherry-pick a commit from another repository you have to first add the other repository as a remote (a remote is a repository whose branches you are tracking). You have to give the remote a name.

git remote add <name> https://github.com/example.git
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Then, you have to fetch the branches of the remote.

git fetch <name>
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Now that you are tracking the other repository and have fetched the changes you can list the commits of a specific branch and cherry-pick a commit.

git log otherRepo/<branch>
git cherry-pick <commit>
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In case that you don't want to track the remote anymore you can remove it with:

git remote remove <name>
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More info about working with remotes here.

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jmalvarez
José Miguel Álvarez Vañó

Posted on October 11, 2022

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