Re: how to most effectively cherry pick by selective patch hunk?
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 08:58:06AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > what would be great is some sort of "-p" (patch selection) option
> > with cherry-pick, but i don't see that.
>
> We have "checkout -p", but of course the problem there is that it's
> picking out of the whole state of that commit. So you might see
> other changes not introduced by that commit.
this is probably what i'll use since i can use <pathspec> to grab
only the patch file from that commit, then add and commit it manually
from there.
rday
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>