Re: How to pull only a few files from one branch to another?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 24, 2007, 06:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20070124060703.GA25759@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <17846.63082.935311.947093@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:

> I probably should have thought ahead and made this fix on a branch,
> merged it into my master branch and then into my topic branch ... I
> think.

Yes. That is standard "good practice" with Git. Unfortunately it does require a little planning ahead if the base to start on isn't immediately obvious (you need to think "I want this here, and here, and here.. and compute the merge base").

-- 
Shawn.