Will git cherry-pick on a tag affect the original tag?
during release runtime I checked the previously released tag and cherry-picked items using git cherry-pick <commit-id>
in it. And created a new tag from it using git tag <tag-name>
.
So my question here is, will it affect the old tag where I cherry-pick the changes? Thanks for any answer in advance.
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In one word: no. Tags created after are not intended to be navigated like branch links. You need to deliberately use
git tag --force v1.0 <some-other-commit>
to move the tag v1.0
to another commit. Cherry-selecting other commits (in other words, applying the changes made by those other commits) on top of the checked commit won't affect the tag.
As an example, if v1.0
is a tag and your story looks like this:
A -- B [master,v1.0]
\
C -- D [develop]
and then you run
git checkout v1.0
git checkout -b rc1.1
git cherry-pick C
git cherry-pick D
You'll get
A -- B [master,v1.0]
\ \
\ C' -- D' [HEAD,rc1.1]
\
C -- D [develop]
The tag v1.0
will stay in place, still pointing to commit B.
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When you select a commit, Git essentially creates a patch from that commit (figuring out what changes were made to it) and applies that to the current HEAD. This process creates a completely new commit with no reference to the original post that you cherry-picked. Git will simply copy the commit message and commit the author and reuse it on a new commit; but other than that, it is a completely separate commit.
So it is no different from creating a new commit yourself. So no, cherry picking, as if it weren't binding, won't affect other commits or tags.
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