git cherry-pick to another branch

Question

I wonder if there is the way to copy one commit to another branch without checking out that branch.

For example, I have two branches: master and p

Answer 1

Crazy idea (based on mnaoumov's comment) if you really want to avoid touching the checked out files (say you don't want to disturb your build system) … that's what I want anyway.

1. Clone the whole git repo to a temporary directory.
2. Do the work in the clone.
3. Add the clone as a remote.
4. git fetch clone && git branch mybranch clone/mybranch -f
5. Clean up.

This would be a thing to automate. If you have filesystem snapshots, cloning the whole repo is cheap – perhaps not so crazy after all…