Cherry-picking allows you to apply specific commits from one branch to another without merging entire branches, useful for selective bug fixes and feature backports. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve used cherry-picking extensively to backport bug fixes and apply specific features across multiple CoreUI versions and release branches. From my 25 years of experience in software development and version control, the most reliable approach is to use git cherry-pick with the target commit hash. This method provides precise commit selection while maintaining clean branch history.