How to fix fatal: bad revision 'abc1234' in Git

# Fetch all branches from all remotes
git fetch --all

# Then retry the cherry-pick
git cherry-pick abc1234

# Fetch from origin only
git fetch origin

# Fetch a specific branch
git fetch origin feature-branch

# Check if the commit exists locally
git show abc1234

# If this also shows "bad revision", the commit isn't in your local repo

# View the commit on a remote branch (after fetching)
git log origin/main --oneline | grep abc1234

# Or search all branches
git branch -a --contains abc1234

# Expand short hash to full hash
git rev-parse abc1234

# If the commit is on 'feature-x' branch
git checkout feature-x
git pull origin feature-x

# Switch back to your branch
git checkout your-branch

# Now cherry-pick should work
git cherry-pick abc1234

# Fetch and update the remote tracking branch
git fetch origin feature-x:refs/remotes/origin/feature-x

# Cherry-pick the commit
git cherry-pick abc1234

# Add the other repository as a remote
git remote add upstream https://github.com/original-owner/repo.git

# Fetch commits from that remote
git fetch upstream

# Now you can cherry-pick the commit
git cherry-pick abc1234

# Add colleague's fork
git remote add colleague https://github.com/colleague/repo.git

# Fetch their branches
git fetch colleague

# Cherry-pick their commit
git cherry-pick def5678

git remote -v

# Cherry-pick commits from A to B (exclusive of A)
git cherry-pick A..B

# Cherry-pick commits from A to B (inclusive of A)
git cherry-pick A^..B

# WRONG: Using hyphen instead of double-dot
git cherry-pick abc1234-def5678  # This won't work!

# CORRECT: Use double-dot for ranges
git cherry-pick abc1234..def5678

# List commits separated by spaces
git cherry-pick abc1234 def5678 ghi9012

git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository
# Returns "true" if shallow

# Fetch the complete history
git fetch --unshallow

# Then retry cherry-pick
git cherry-pick abc1234

# Fetch 100 more commits
git fetch --deepen=100

# Clone with more history
git clone --depth=100 https://github.com/user/repo.git

# Search reflogs for the commit
git reflog | grep abc1234

# Or search all reflogs
git reflog --all | grep abc1234

git cherry-pick abc1234

# Create a tag to preserve important commits
git tag preserve-abc1234 abc1234

# On a machine that has the commit, create a patch
git format-patch -1 abc1234

# Transfer the .patch file, then apply it
git apply 0001-commit-message.patch

# Or apply and create a commit
git am 0001-commit-message.patch

# Get the diff from GitHub/GitLab and apply locally
curl -L https://github.com/user/repo/commit/abc1234.patch | git apply

curl -L "https://github.com/user/repo/commit/abc1234.patch" | git am