How to cherry-pick a commit from another repository

To cherry-pick a commit from another repository you have to first add the other repository as a remote (a remote is a repository whose branches you are tracking). You have to give the remote a name.

git remote add <name> https://github.com/example.git

Then, you have to fetch the branches of the remote.

git fetch <name>

Now that you are tracking the other repository and have fetched the changes you can list the commits of a specific branch and cherry-pick a commit.

git log otherRepo/<branch>
git cherry-pick <commit>

In case that you don't want to track the remote anymore you can remove it with:

git remote remove <name>

More info about working with remotes here.

Resources

• Git - Cherry-pick
• Git - Remote
• Git - Working with Remotes

Comments

[Colby Fayock]

worked perfectly, thanks