Copy commit from one branch to another without using git merge

So I was doing some tests in code today and had to create a test branch.

After the testing was done, I forgot to change the branch back to "master". So all reasonable code that I wrote afterwards was in the test branch. I had already committed and was about to push when I noticed I was on the wrong branch.

I asked myself how I can pick a commit from one branch and apply it to another (not merging both branches together with redundant/test code). So I remembered a command that Alangi Derick used, cherry-pick

How does git cherry pick works?

• While on the wrong branch (the one that has the commit), do git log and copy the commit hash
• Checkout to the correct branch which you want to apply the commit, eg git checkout master
• Now apply the commit to the new branch, git cherry-pick <commit-hash>

You are good to go, all the changes from that commit hash will be copied from the old branch to the new branch.

Hope this helps someone out there.

May the source be with you