git cherry-pick not working

Question

I\'m trying to cherry-pick a commit from master and get it into the current production branch. However, when I execute git cherry-pick , I just

Answer 1

In my case this was driving me nuts, as it was quite obvious that the specific commit I wanted to cherry pick had not been merged into my current branch.

It turns out someone had already cherry picked the commit a week prior. The changes, but not the specific SHA, were already in my current branch, and I had not noticed them.

Check the file(s) that you're attempting to cherry pick. If they already have the changes, a version of the commit has already been cherry picked or added in another manner. There is thus no need to cherry pick it again.