What's the *right* way to apply a patch from another branch?

Question

I make a fix in one branch and want to apply it to another branch. Here's what I have been doing:

git diff 68610d^ 68610d | git apply
git commit -a -m "SV-656  IP blocking not working  (applying patch from 68610d)"

works perfectly but it occurs to me, it doesn't seem like a very git-like way to do things. In particular, what I am actually doing is only apparent from the comment. This is a very basic activity and I don't think git would have missed it.

EDIT: is this the function of "cherry-pick"?

Answer 1

The correct way would be

git cherry-pick 68610d

If your really wanted to alter the commit message:

git cherry-pick --no-commit 68610d
git commit -m "SV-656  IP blocking not working  (applying patch from 68610d)"