How to cherry-pick multiple commits

Git 1.7.2 introduced the ability to cherry pick a range of commits. From the release notes:

git cherry-pick learned to pick a range of commits (e.g. cherry-pick A..B and cherry-pick --stdin), so did git revert; these do not support the nicer sequencing control rebase [-i] has, though.

To cherry-pick all the commits from commit A to commit B (where A is older than B), run:

git cherry-pick A^..B

If you want to ignore A itself, run:

git cherry-pick A..B

Notes from comments:

• A should be older than B, or A should be from another branch.
• On Windows, it should be A^^..B as the caret needs to be escaped, or it should be "A^..B" (double quotes).
• In zsh shell, it should be 'A^..B' (single quotes) as the caret is a special character.
• For an exposition, see the answer by Gabriel Staples.

(Credits to damian, J. B. Rainsberger, sschaef, Neptilo, Pete and TMin in the comments.)

Or the requested one-liner:

git rebase --onto a b f

If you have selective revisions to merge, say A, C, F, J from A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J commits, simply use the below command:

git cherry-pick A C F J

The simplest way to do this is with the onto option to rebase. Suppose that the branch which current finishes at a is called mybranch and this is the branch that you want to move c-f onto.

# checkout mybranch
git checkout mybranch

# reset it to f (currently includes a)
git reset --hard f

# rebase every commit after b and transplant it onto a
git rebase --onto a b