I need to merge from one branch to another but only between selected tags in Git
your help highly appreciates.
- A branch is not a chain of commits; it is the name of one commit. Do you mean you want to cherry pick the tagged commit?matt– matt2019-12-10 04:06:20 +00:00Commented Dec 10, 2019 at 4:06
- @matt thank you for your reply, In my scenario, I am maintaining a different branch to different version so I need to merge selected commits from the master branch. To identify the selected commits I have added two tags from start commit to ending commit. as per my understanding cherry-pick can only merge only selected commits not the set of commits.Indrakumara– Indrakumara2019-12-10 04:13:23 +00:00Commented Dec 10, 2019 at 4:13
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as per my understanding cherry-pick can only merge only selected commits not the set of commits
git cherry-pick can apply a set of commits, as I describe in "How to cherry pick a range of commits and merge into another branch?"
In your case:
git cherry-pick tag1^{}..tag2^{} {}^ is the dereference notation.
Make sure that tag1 reference the oldest commit.
And understand this will not move the tags, which will still reference their original commits.
