From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:58:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Applying the changes of a specific commit from one branch to another.
Message-ID: <a038bef50903011758v11706f27v897df8b6d0d9ca7c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <22280717.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:44 PM, NewToGit <omarnetbox@gmail.com> wrote:
> Scenario:
>
> - branched off master and created story123 branch.
> - made three separate change commits to story123:
>        - 'fixed bug123'
>        - 'fixed bug456'
>        - 'fixed bug789'
>
> - now I realized that I need to apply only one commit 'fixed bug789' to
> master
>
> Question: What's the best way to go about doing this?
>

What you want to do is "cherry-pick" the commit 'fixed bug789'. With
git there are several ways to do this but the one I'd use is the
cherry-pick functionality of gitk.

git checkout master
gitk --all
<right click on the 'fixed bug789' commit and select "cherry-pick this commit">

Like I say there are plenty of ways to do something like this. I'm
sure you'll get plenty more responses.