Cherry-pick the last commit from the current (master) branch to a given branch

cherry-pick-last-commit.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Copyright 2016 Martin Goellnitz
#
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BRANCH=$1
if [ -z $BRANCH ] ; then
  echo "usage $0 [branch to pick last commit to]"
  exit 1
fi
CURRENT=`git branch|grep '\*'|cut -d ' ' -f 2`
HASH=`git log|head -1|cut -d ' ' -f 2` 
echo picking $HASH from $CURRENT to $BRANCH
git checkout $BRANCH
git cherry-pick $HASH
git checkout $CURRENT