In the Commit Details area we can see which files were changed in a particular commit. When we select a commit, we can look at the information in the Commit Details area (at the bottom right) to make sure these are the changes we want to transfer to this branch. Commits that have already been applied to the current branch are greyed out. We’ll compare with the new-feature branch. To see which commits have not yet been applied to this branch, we can click View Options and select Highlight | Not Cherry-Picked Commits. We can also filter commits in the commit log by branch, user, date or path. We can search for a specific commit hash, branch or tag name in the Git log ( ⌘ F on Mac or Ctrl+F on Windows/Linux).

To do so, first we need to look for the last release (v1). For example, let’s move our bugfix commit also to the v1-release. We can also use cherry-picking to backport a fix to a previous release branch.

Let’s take a look at some other use cases for cherry-picking. Cherry-pick successful Other use cases for cherry-pickingĬherry picking can be useful in other situations too. Cherry-pick on the command lineĪs we can see, the bugfix commit is now on the bugfix branch. We would need to find the commit hash of the commit we want to cherry-pick, which we can find for example in the Commit Details pane in the Git log window (see below). Yes, we can do this from the command line too, but there’s no cute cherry icon on the command line. To cherry-pick a commit from the command line, we can use the command git cherry-pick. Cherry Pick the selected commit from the context menu Cherry-pick from the command line On the newly created branch, we can select the bugfix commit from the other branch and select Cherry-Pick to apply that commit to our current branch. Once we’re back on the main branch, we can create a new branch named “bugfix”. We can do this using Git’s “cherry pick” option from IntelliJ IDEA.įirst, let’s go back to main and create the bugfix branch that we should have created in the first place. We only want to move this one commit from the feature branch to a separate bugfix branch. I could redo the work, especially if it’s a small change, but … I don’t want to! Luckily, there is a better way. How do we fix this? Bugfix commit is on the wrong branch Use cherry-pick to move the commit You fixed the bug and committed the fix, but oops… you forgot to create a new branch for the bugfix! Now this bugfix is on the wrong branch. You’re working on a new feature, but an urgent bug came in. There are several reasons why you might want to move a commit to a different branch.

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