Why use git cherry-pick instead of git rebase
Yacine C
Posted on April 12, 2023
Debugging can quickly become difficult when your rebase
is significant. Fortunately, you can use cherry-pick
to help you rebase your branch commit by commit.
Let's consider a practical example: you are developing on a branch named feature
, and you need to rebase this branch onto main
.
First, ensure that you are on the feature
branch. Then, copy the commit hash that you want to apply to feature
and use the following command:
git cherry-pick hash_from_main_branch
If the cherry-pick
operation creates a conflict, you will need to resolve it. The advantage of this approach is that you can deal with a single commit
and a smaller conflict. You know which commit
created the conflict, making it easier to solve the problem.
Posted on April 12, 2023
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