5 Git Concepts To Move Beyond The Beginner Developer

git cherry-pick, git stash, git hooks and more!

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1. git cherry-pick

This is similar to picking the best cherries (i.e. commits) from a tree branch (i.e. a branch of your repository).

Check out the example below where we create a repository and add file1 to the master branch.

> git init
> echo "lines in file1" >> file1
> git add .
> git commit -m "added file1 to master"

# Ashish creates a new branch : ashish_changes
> git checkout -b ashish_changes

# Ashish adds more lines to file1
> echo "lines to file1" >> file1

# Ashish commits the changes to 'ashish_changes' branch
> git commit -am "ashish's changes to file1"

> git checkout master

# John creates a new branch : john_changes
> git checkout -b john_changes

# John adds a new file
> echo "lines in file2" > file2

# John commits the changes to 'john_changes' branch
> git add file2
> git commit -m "file2 added"

# Repository's history 
> git log --oneline --all --decorate --graph

* c83a4c6 (HEAD -> john_changes) added file2
| * dffe39c (ashish_changes) ashish'…