How to merge in different order?

From: Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>
Date: Apr 3, 2009, 16:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20090403161208.GC28619@raven.wolf.lan>

Hello,

Given a branch that looks like

  A1  A2  A3  A4  A5

I would like to merge into another branch in the order

  A1  A3  A4  A2  A5

When I merge A3, then A2 is merged also. git-merge don't seem to have an option to omit slurping older commits?

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