Ever have the problem where you were not paying attention, and you created a few commits on the MASTER branch, instead of a feature branch?
No worries- I just made that exact same mistake, and I am going to demonstrate how to resolve the issue….
In the below image, you can see…. I accidentally made my commits to the master branch, instead of my feature/dev/test branch. Instead of redoing all of the commits manually, I am going to demonstrate the cherry-pick method for manually moving the commits over.
Method: Cherry Pick Commits to new branch
For method one, I will demonstrate cherry-picking the specific commits, into the proper branch.
Step 1: Take note of the specific commits.
In my example, I need to move these commits:
- dda291d4 – Update LIB.Interfaces
- d46a4441 – The lastExecutionIdParameter….
I am leaving out the “merge branch ‘master'”commit, because, the new branch is already up to date with master.
Step 2: Create new branch, or switch to the proper branch.
Step 3. Cherry pick the individual commits
While this functionality is likely built into visual studio somewhere, I chose the command line terminal to perform the cherry-pick.
If you do not have git in your path variable, you may use the visual studio Nuget package manager console to perform these changes.
Done!
After cherry-picking the individual commits to the new branch, you are done!
Make sure to rebuild with the updated code, to ensure you didn’t leave something out.