In the simple case, yes. But what if it’s a merge commit? What if there is a conflict and I actually want the result to split into two clean diffs that I’ll specify (so that both compile, of course). What if I want it inserted somewhere in the middle of a branch? What if the branch doesn’t exist yet but I want to do this to a remote branch without having to check out something new locally? What if I want to apply the change but lie about the author?

Git is able to do all these things, and I am actually quite pleased that it can support all of these strange workflows. But it still isn’t at all obvious how you’d get these to work if you know the operation to apply a commit was “git cherry-pick”. (I have also noticed that “git rebase” is often a, if not the answer to every “how do I fix my tree” question. But it’s certainly not advertised as such, which is beyond me.)