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leopoodle
leopoodle

Reputation: 2482

git cherry-pick does not work

I get a strange error:

git cherry-pick a0cd8fe

fatal: bad revision 'a0cd8fe'

Why is that?

Note that the branch that a0cd8fe was merged to has been deleted. Is that why I get this error?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 27488

Answers (3)

krishna chaitanya
krishna chaitanya

Reputation: 392

That is because you don't have the remote branch (from where you want to cherry-pick) locally

Solution

git fetch origin <remote_branch>
git cherry-pick <commit_id>

Upvotes: 8

J&#233;r&#244;me G
J&#233;r&#244;me G

Reputation: 1116

I just had the same exact problem.

I resolved it by typing git fetch before git cherry-pick xxxxxx

Upvotes: 2

Code-Apprentice
Code-Apprentice

Reputation: 83527

Just deleting a branch does not remove any commits. Immediately afterwards, any git command will work when given the SHA hash of a commit that was on the deleted branch. These so-called orphaned commits are eventually garbage collected after a set amount of time. From your output, it assists that this is what has happened. After garbage collection, the commit is permanently deleted.

Upvotes: 4

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