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cherry picking

/ˈCHerēˌpikiNG/


  • choosing or highlighting cases, data, items, etc. that confirm or agree with a position without considering those that are contradictory; often the root of many logical fallacies
  • in version control systems like git, the act of selecting commits from a branch and applying them to another - for example, git cherry-pick <commit-hash>
  • an ongoing curation of music between friends - a celebration of esoteric sounds, tunes that evoke memories and feelings, and the random songs we discovered along the way