# cherry-pick & bisect — Git Fundamentals: Commits, Branches and Collaboration

Source: https://www.geekswithgeeks.com/en/git/git-cherry-pick-bisect

> Copy a single commit with git cherry-pick and find the commit that introduced a bug with git bisect.

## cherry-pick

`git cherry-pick` applies one commit from another branch onto your current branch, for example a hotfix.

```bash
git switch release/1.2
git cherry-pick a1b2c3d     # copy one fix from main
git cherry-pick --abort      # if it conflicts and you want out
```

## bisect

`git bisect` binary-searches history. Mark a bad and a good commit, then test each step Git checks out.

```bash
git bisect start
git bisect bad                 # current commit is broken
git bisect good v1.0.0         # this one worked
# test, then run: git bisect good  OR  git bisect bad
git bisect reset
```

Cherry-picking duplicates a commit (a new hash), so prefer merging when you can. Bisect can run automatically with `git bisect run ./test.sh`.