Cherry-pick a Git commit (FREE)

In Git, you can cherry-pick a commit (a set of changes) from an existing branch, and apply those changes to another branch. Cherry-picks can help you:

Backport bug fixes from the default branch to previous release branches.
Copy changes from a fork to the upstream repository.

You can cherry-pick commits from the command line. In the GitLab user interface, you can also:

Cherry-pick all changes from a merge request.
Cherry-pick a single commit.
Cherry-pick from a fork to the upstream repository.

Cherry-pick from the command line

These instructions explain how to cherry-pick a commit from the default branch (main) into a different branch (stable):

Check out the default branch, then check out a new stable branch based on it:
```
git checkout main
git checkout -b stable
```
Change back to the default branch:
```
git checkout main
```

Make your changes, then commit them:

git add changed_file.rb
git commit -m 'Fix bugs in changed_file.rb'

Display the commit log:

$ git log

commit 0000011111222223333344444555556666677777
Merge: 88888999999 aaaaabbbbbb
Author: user@example.com
Date:   Tue Aug 31 21:19:41 2021 +0000

Identify the commit line, and copy the string of letters and numbers on that line. This information is the SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm) of the commit. The SHA is a unique identifier for this commit, and you need it in a future step.
Now that you know the SHA, check out the stable branch again:
```
git checkout stable
```
Cherry-pick the commit into the stable branch, and change SHA to your commit SHA:
```
git cherry-pick <SHA>
```

Cherry-pick a Git commit (FREE)

Cherry-pick from the command line

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