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I have read the excellent series of posts by Raymond Chen titled Stop cherry-picking, start merging

And I totally understand that cherry-picking is evil if we are going to merge the branches afterwards.

But suppose I never merge the two branches. Are there any perils of cherry-picking in this case?

mark
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Not exactly "none", but low risk.

The only issue remains to pick up a change depending on another change that is not cherry-picked: the resulting merge would not work in the destination branch while it was working on the source branch.
That is called "ignoring functional dependencies".

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