Git - merge from specific commit onwards

Question

Say i have a master and a develop branch - develop has a lot of commits that master does not for simplicity sake:

Develop:

Commit 1
Commit 2
Commit 3
Commit 4
Commit 5
Commit 6

I want to cut a new feature branch from master that does not have any of these commits in develop.

but the tricky part is that I want to merge develop into my feature from commit 3 onwards.

I could cherry pick but in reality there are many, many more commits than my simple example.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

You could cherry-pick:

git checkout -b newfeature master
git cherry-pick commit2..develop

if that syntax isn't supported directly, there, use:

git cherry-pick $(git rev-list commit2..develop)

_{note: the first commit in the a..b range notation is not included in the list of revisions, thanks Carl}

Otherwise, it looks like a case for rebase --root ... --onto. I always look up the specifics in the man page.