git cherry-pick is a powerful command that enables arbitrary Git commits to be picked by reference and appended to the current working HEAD. Cherry-picking is the act of picking a commit from a branch and applying it to another. 

Example 

Create some commits in the dev branch and merge a particular commit in the main branch

• git branch dev
• git checkout dev
• touch dev.java dev1.java
• git add .
• git commit -m “dev.java file is added” dev.java
• git commit -m “dev1.java file is added” dev1.java
• git log –oneline
• git checkout –
• git cherry-pick 6f39b22
• git log –oneline
• git cherry-pick 478bfdb -n # merge commit in stage area
• git status
• git commit -m “dev1.java”