Git issue - move specific commits from your current branch to a different branch

There are multiple ways to move branches from one branch to another.

1. Cherry-pick only copies the commit from current branch to target branch rather than moving the commit i.e., the branch is still there in source branch.

    # Switch to the target branch
    git checkout target-branch
   
    # Cherry-pick specific commit(s)
    git cherry-pick <commit-hash>
   

   This is the first way, but as mentioned earlier - this would only copy the commit but not move it.

2. In order to move the commit, we need to use rebase:

    # Move to the source branch
    git checkout source-branch
   
    # Start an interactive rebase
    git rebase -i HEAD~<N>
   

• Change pick to drop for commits you want to remove from the source branch.

• Save and exit.

    git checkout target-branch
    git cherry-pick <commit-hash>
  

  This removes the commit from the original branch and moves it to the correct branch.