Is there any way to display changes that would be applied by the 'git cherry-pick ' before actually doing anything?
I would like to see a 'git diff' type of list of changes that would be done by the command without actually doing the changes or modifying anything.
git cherry-pick doesn't have a --dry-run option like some other commands.
However, although not exactly what you asked, you could just test it out, the rollback would be trivial :
(assuming you start on a clean working tree)
# cherry-pick without actually committing
git cherry-pick -n <commit>
# inspect changes
git diff --staged
# wipe all these temporary changes to go back to where you started
git reset --hard
I Believe you can do a git diff between the last commit on your branch and the commit you want to cherry-pick like so :
git diff [last-commit-hash] [cherry-pick-commit-hash]