git-cherry-pick

In a normal Git merge conflict, the three versions of a file in play for the three-way merge are roughly as follows: LOCAL: the version from my branch REMOTE: the version from the other branch BASE: the version from the common ancestor of the two branches (in particular, the common ancestor of my branch's HEAD and the other branch's HEAD) When a Git cherry-pick generates a merge conflict, there is no common ancestor, properly speaking, so how are these things determined? The same could be asked about rebase. cherry-pick Unless I have misled myself, then if you do "git cherry-pick <commit C>",

I am trying to understand what merge and rebase do, in terms of set operations in math. In the following, "-" means diff (similar to taking set difference in math, but "A-B" means those in A but not in B and minus those in B not in A), and "+" means patch (i.e. taking disjoint union in math. I haven't used patch before, so I am not sure). From Version Control with Git, by Loeliger, 2ed The command git cherry-pick commit applies the changes introduced by the named commit on the current branch. It will introduce a new, distinct commit. Strictly speaking, using git cherry-pick doesn’t alter the

I sometimes need to cherry-pick a tag with a certain fix into my branch, and used to do so via git cherry-pick tags/myfix This works, but cherry-picking takes an increasingly long time doing "inexact rename detection". My hunch was that this could be faster with git format-patch -k -1 --stdout tags/myfix | git am -3 -k In fact, this turned out to apply the fix instantly, leaving my branch in exactly the same state as cherry-picking. Now my question is, what exactly does cherry-picking do differently? I thought cherry-picking was basically implemented as exactly this, but I must have been

I know git cherry-pick is a command that use to apply the changes of specified commit, but I think I just don't really understand the way it works. Let's say a repo act like that: git init echo a>a git add .; git commit -am 'master add line a' git checkout -b dev echo b>>a git commit -am 'dev add line b' echo c>>a git commit -am 'dev add line c' git checkout master git cherry-pick dev I thought cherry-pick command would work well and change file a into: a c but in fact I got the following message: error: could not apply 08e8d3e... dev add line c hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the

I created a new branch named newbranch from the master branch in git. Now I have done some work and want to merge newbranch to master ; however, I have made some extra changes to newbranch and I want to merge newbranch up to the fourth-from-the-last commit to master . I used cherry-pick but it shows the message to use the right options: git checkout master git cherry-pick ^^^^HEAD newbranch Can I use git merge to do it instead? git merge newbranch <commitid> KL-7 Sure, being in master branch all you need to do is: git merge <commit-id> where commit-id is hash of the last commit from newbranch