From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:58:10 GMT
Subject: Re: how to most effectively cherry pick by selective patch hunk?
Message-ID: <4fe5247a-96d6-c4a-97f8-9ede175adf90@crashcourse.ca>
In-Reply-To: <YCK6w/VbfUtM68Ad@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, Jeff King wrote:

> 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