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Cherry Pick

Part of the Full Stack Developer Roadmap.

Summary

`git cherry-pick <commit>` applies a single specific commit from one branch onto another, without merging the whole branch.

How to Learn This

  • 1Cherry-pick a single commit from one branch onto another in a sandbox repo.
  • 2Learn when cherry-pick is the right tool — e.g. hotfixing a specific change to a release branch.
  • 3Understand that cherry-picking creates a new commit with a different hash.
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