Merge up to a specific commit

Question

I created a new branch named newbranch from the master branch in git  Now I have done some work and want to merge newbranch to master  however  I have made some extra changes to newbranch and I want to merge newbranch up to the fourth-from-the-last commit to master   I used cherry-pick but it shows the message to use the right options   git checkout master     git cherry-pick     HEAD newbranch   Can I use git merge to do it instead   git merge newbranch  lt commitid gt

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Sure  being in master branch all you need to do is   git merge  lt commit-id gt    where commit-id is hash of the last commit from newbranch that you want to get in your master branch   You can find out more about any git command by doing git help  lt command gt   It that case it s git help merge  And docs are saying that the last argument for merge command is  lt commit gt      so you can pass reference to any commit or even multiple commits  Though  I never did the latter myself

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Recently we had a similar problem and had to solve it in a different way  We had to merge two branches up to two commits  which were not the heads of either branches  branch A  A1 - gt  A2 - gt  A3 - gt  A4 branch B  B1 - gt  B2 - gt  B3 - gt  B4 branch C  C1 - gt  A2 - gt  B3 - gt  C2  For example  we had to merge branch A up to A2 and branch B up to B3  But branch C had cherry-picks from A and B  When using the SHA of A2 and B3 it looked like there was confusion because of the local branch C which had the same SHA  To avoid any kind of ambiguity we removed branch C locally  and then created a branch AA starting from commit A2  git co A git co SHA-of-A2 git co -b AA  Then we created a branch BB from commit B3  git co B git co SHA-of-B3 git co -b BB  At that point we merged the two branches AA and BB  By removing branch C and then referencing the branches instead of the commits it worked  It s not clear to me how much of this was superstition or what actually made it work  but this  quot long approach quot  may be helpful

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To keep the branching clean  you could do this   git checkout newbranch git branch newbranch2 git reset --hard  lt commit Id gt    the commit at which you want to merge git checkout master git merge newbranch git checkout newbranch2   This way  newbranch will end where it was merged into master  and you continue working on newbranch2

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Run below command into the current branch folder to merge from this  lt commit-id gt  to current branch  --no-commit do not make a new commit automatically  git merge --no-commit  lt commit-id gt    git merge --continue can only be run after the merge has resulted in conflicts   git merge --abort Abort the current conflict resolution process  and try to reconstruct the pre-merge state

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