From: bisani
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:37:38 GMT
Subject: Re: git checkout effect on ls-files --others, how to merge partially?
Message-ID: <loom.20090206T163626-457@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <slrngooent.om3.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>

Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 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?