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Re: git checkout effect on ls-files --others, how to merge partially?

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Bbisani <bisani>
Date
Feb 6, 2009, 16:37 UTC
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Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> On 2009-02-06, Bisani, Alok <alok.bisani <at> credit-suisse.com> wrote:
>
> > 	Is there a way to pull in changes from a branch but only limited
> > to a file/files? I ended up doing a manual restore using git-cat-file
> ><branch>@{0}:/file. And checked in.
> 
> git checkout branch -- filename
> 
>

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I wonder why it is the checkout command which does this, rather than the pull/merge. What is the reason that we cannot pull/merge a specific file from a branch?

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