Don’t know how many of you faced this situation to cherrypick or pull latest commits from an entirely different repo. But this situation is very obvious if you are customizing an existing product for a client and the base product is also getting updated frequently by the team of that.
This article talks about
The articles talks about different processes to to pickup your changes from a different repository. Processes are mentioned in the bullet points below.
By cherry-pick
Cherry picking is a nice process to pickup selective commits from somewhere. It’s easy when you are doing inter branch of the same repo; but a little tricky if you wish to get the commits of a different repository. Below is the code to do so.