Why cherry-pick is useful in Git - Test Your Understanding

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the command to copy a specific commit from another branch.

Git

git cherry-pick [1]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Arebase

Bcommit-hash

Cmerge

Dbranch-name

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a branch name instead of a commit hash.

Trying to cherry-pick without specifying a commit.

The git cherry-pick command copies a specific commit identified by its commit hash from another branch into your current branch.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the sentence: Cherry-pick is useful when you want to {{BLANK_1}} a commit without merging the whole branch.

Git

Cherry-pick is useful when you want to [1] a commit without merging the whole branch.

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Acopy

Bdelete

Cignore

Drevert

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Confusing cherry-pick with deleting or reverting commits.

Cherry-pick lets you copy a specific commit from another branch without merging all changes from that branch.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to cherry-pick commit abc123.

Git

git cherry-pick [1]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

AHEAD

Bbranch-name

Cmerge

Dabc123

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using branch names or HEAD instead of commit hash.

The correct way to cherry-pick is by specifying the commit hash, like abc123.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a new branch and cherry-pick a commit.

Git

git checkout -b [1] && git cherry-pick [2]

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Afeature-fix

Babc123

Cmaster

Ddevelop

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using existing branch names instead of new branch name.

Using branch names instead of commit hash for cherry-pick.

This command creates a new branch called feature-fix and then cherry-picks the commit abc123 onto it.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to cherry-pick multiple commits in sequence.

Git

git cherry-pick [1] [2] [3]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Aabc123

Bdef456

C789ghi

Dmaster

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Including branch names instead of commit hashes.

Using fewer or more commits than blanks.

This command cherry-picks three commits abc123, def456, and 789ghi in order onto the current branch.