Best way to generate a git tree containing only a subset of commits from another tree?

From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mar 22, 2006, 19:28 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603221920260.22475@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>

As subject, what is at present the best way to generate a git tree containing only a subset of commits from another tree.

So I have /usr/src/my-big-tree and /usr/src/linux-2.6 and now I want to add some of the commits in my-big-tree to the tree linux-2.6 so I can push out to Linus.

Preferable I would like to do it so that later when Linus has pulled from my /usr/src/linux-2.6 tree, I do a "git pull" of Linus' tree from /usr/src/my-big-tree and it all works correctly and I don't end up with the same commits twice.

Is that possible at all?

If not what can I do to do it cleanly? Does git help in any way or do I literally have to export all my commits from /usr/src/my-big-tree to diff style patches and then throw away the tree, clone Linus tree after he has pulled my /usr/src/linux-2.6 tree and commit all my generated diff patches again? That would be rather horrible to have to do...

I am happy to be pointed to a FAQ or RTFM if you tell me where to look for it...

Thanks a lot in advance!

PS. Please keep me CC:-ed as I am not on the git mailing list any more.

Best regards,

	Anton

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