Helpful Git Commands

Cherry-picking certain commits into a branch

git checkout release-branch
git cherry-pick xyzabc123
git push origin release-branch

Undoing change from a merged PR from a branch

Checkout the branch where the PR was merged and run the following command –

git revert -m 1 commit_id_of_merge_pr

git revert makes new commits to remove old commits in a way while keeping the commit history. This is the recommended way to undo a commit. There is also another command called git reset , but this doesn’t keep the history of your commits.

Undoing change to a particular commit

git revert --no-commit commit_sha..HEAD

Push reference of one branch to another

git push origin master:production

List commit logs with reference

git reflog