Checkout a temporary branch, cherry pick the provided commit(s), and finally switch to the provided branch name

goCherryPick.sh

# Checkout a temporaru branch `tmp`, cherry pick the provided commit(s), and
# finally switch to the provided branch name
# $1 = branch name
# $2 = first commit
# $3 = second commit for forming a range (optional)
function goCherryPick() {
	if [ -z "$1" ]; then
		echo "Branch name not provided, aborting"
		return;
	fi

	if [ "$1" = "tmp" ]; then
		echo "The branch name cannot be tmp"
	fi

	if [ -z "$2" ]; then
		echo "Commit not provided, aborting"
		return;
	fi

	git checkout -b tmp
	if [ -z "$3" ]; then
		git cherry-pick "$2"
	else
		git cherry-pick "$2"^.."$3"
	fi

	git branch -D "$1"
	git branch -m "$1"
}