How copy a commit from a branch to another in git?

Sometimes we have a commit in a branch that we want to move to another branch. For example I have created a repository with 3 branches and in each one I added a file:

Files in each branch

In master branch there is a file named hello ; in branch_1 there are 2 files hello and hola ; in branch_2 there are also 2 files hello and ola .

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Now we want to see the commits create in each branch.

git log — oneline

Each branch have the master commit and other commit where we added changes. In this example we want to move the commit 7a48fca from branch_2 to branch_1 . In simple words we want to apply the changes did in branch_2 in branch_1 . To do it, we could use the command cherry-pick like git cherry-pick commit-id-to-move :

git cherry-pick 7a48fca

Now in branch_1 we have 3 commits:

git log in branch_1

And also we have 3 files:

So we finished. If you want to know more about this command you could see the documentation in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-cherry-pick.