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~/Git cherry-pick from another repository

24 January 2014

Somehow.. somehow… I managed to overwrite a commit by force-pushing a branch that didn’t include said commit.

The commit was made in a local copy of the repository that I was working on in parallel with my normal working copy. So,

c:\source\repo        <-- working copy
c:\source\repo-copy   <-- copy with the commit I need

I didn’t want to mess around with rebasing the repo-copy to merge in the remote branch and totally muck everything up.

The solution is to cherry pick the commit from the working copy. First add the local copy as a remote to the working copy:

c:\source\repo> git remote add localcopy ../repo-copy

This adds a remote called localcopy which points to the local repo copy. Then, fetch from localcopy:

c:\source\repo> git fetch localcopy
remote: Counting objects: 500, done.                                                                                   
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (306/306), done.                                                                     
emote: Total 444 (delta 329), reused 149 (delta 132)                                                                   
Receiving objects: 100% (444/444), 58.53 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.                                                        
Resolving deltas: 100% (329/329), completed with 35 local objects.                                                     
From ..\repo-copy\                                                                                                  
 * [new branch]      xxxx -> repo-copy/xxxx              
 ...

<aside>What happened with line 3 of the response? emote? strange.</aside>

Then cherry-pick the appropriate commit:

c:\source\repo-copy> git cherry-pick <commit-hash>

I had to resolve some conflicts but it all looks ok.