Our users requested cherry-picking and we listened. What else would you like to see in GitHub Desktop?
GITHUB DESKTOP MERGE UPDATE
Now, your avatar will display a warning icon, and clicking it provides an easy way for you to update your Git config to match an email associated with your GitHub account. Switching between personal and work repos? GitHub Desktop helps you avoid making misattributed commits. Context menu: Not a fan of drag and drop? Just right click on a commit or set of commits, and select the cherry-pick option to open a branch dialog to select your target branch.Ĭherry-picking isn’t all that is new since version 2.6.The same conflict resolution dialog you’re familiar with from merging and rebasing is available for taking care of merge conflicts. Conflict resolution: Not all cherry-picks are this easy, and conflicts may arise.Just click undo in the success banner to remove those commits, and it puts you back on the branch you started from. Undo: You cherry-picked a group of commits and immediately realized that you cherry-picked one too many.There are several goodies that come with cherry-picking: What about multiple commits? Shift+click the range you would like to copy, and drag away. Want to cherry-pick a single commit? Just start dragging it. No problem! Just create a release branch and use GitHub Desktop to cherry-pick those commits to your new branch for the hotfix. Then, you decide that the fix needs to go into production and can’t wait until this feature is finished. You create a couple of commits to fix that bug. What more intuitive way to copy a commit than by simply picking it up, dragging it to your branch, and dropping it there!įor example, you start working on a new feature, and several commits into development you identify an existing bug in the underlying architecture.
One of our most requested features from the past year is cherry-picking, and we’re excited to release it in GitHub Desktop 2.7.Ĭherry-picking is a handy feature for when you would like to copy commits from one branch to another.
GitHub Desktop aims to provide an intuitive way for users to complete everyday Git and GitHub workflows.
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