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How to cherry pick from 1 branch to another

I have 2 branches, master and dev.

I am on dev branch and I want to cherry-pick 1 commit from master to dev. So I did 

$ git cherry-pick be530cec7748e037c665bd5a585e6d9ce11bc8ad
Finished one cherry-pick.

But when I do git status and gitx, I don't see my commit be530cec7748e037c665bd5a585e6d9ce11bc8ad in git history.

How can I see my commit in the dev branch?

Solution

  • When you cherry-pick, it creates a new commit with a new SHA. If you do: 

    git cherry-pick -x <sha>

    then at least you'll get the commit message from the original commit appended to your new commit, along with the original SHA, which is very useful for tracking cherry-picks.