Skip-Some-Commits-When-Doing-Merge

05 Mar 2019

Question

How to skip some commits when doing merge? This situation is not a common one but an interesting one. Look at the picture above if you don’t understand the question.

Solution 1 - cherry-pick

[master]$ git cherry-pick 123474
[master]$ git cherry-pick 123475

And then the tree is like this:

              474  475
    ---o---o---o---o---> dev
   |
   |              351 474  475 
---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---> master
   

Solution 2 - rebase -i

[dev]$ git checkout -b bug-to-merge-into-master
[bug-to-merge-into-master]$ git rebase -i 123471 123475
d 123471
d 123472
d 123473
p 123474
p 123475
[bug-to-merge-into-master]$ git checkout master
[master]$ git merge bug-to-merge-into-master

Solution 3 - merge + revert

[master]$ git merge dev
[master]$ git revert -n 123471
[master]$ git revert -n 123472
[master]$ git revert -n 123473
[master]$ git commit -m "revert"

Now the tree is like this:

      471 472 473 474 475
    ---o---o---o---o---o
   |                    \
   |                      \
---o---o---o---o---o---o---o--------o----->master
                          merge   revert

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