[p1necone]

As long as you never ever cherry-pick from one branch to another when the source branch is intended to eventually be actually merged (directly or indirectly) into the destination branch I think it has its use cases.

If you break this rule you could be in for dealing with some atrocious merge conflicts though, so I try not to do it unless the branch I'm cherry picking from is a definite actual dead end (e.g. the change was an urgent hotfix against an old release branch and your workflow doesn't involve merging those back into main/master).

[doix]

Is that really an issue? When you rebase, git automatically figures out that you've cherry-picked something and will skip it.

I will occasionally chery-pick something from master, do my work etc. Before making my PR, I'll rebase against master and potentially squash/reorganize my commits. When the PR eventually gets merged to master there aren't any problems.

I don't think I ever merge without rebasing though, so maybe rebase has been saving me from any potential problems.

[p1necone]

Yeah I very rarely rebase, just autosquash PR commits into one on merge to master (and also delete the source branch to avoid similar headaches) + making sure PRs are fairly small and focused. Regular merges where commits have been cherry picked from one side to another, and then later also unmerged changes have touched those same files tend to result in a lot of spurious merge conflicts.