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After deletion of a local branch in git, will I be able to cherry-pick commits from the deleted branch by their IDs?

If I have a local branch in git with commits A, B, C, D, E and I choose to delete it using

git branch -D myBranch

but I save the commit IDs before deleting, will I be able to cherry-pick some of these commits to another branch by their IDs afterwards?

Solution

  • Yes. Just specify the commit ids (SHAs) in the cherry-pick command:

    git cherry-pick -x <commit-hash>

    (The -x is not required, but recommended as it will give you a standard comment.) This answer has more details.