# How to pick a commit from another git tree?

3 messages from 2007-10-07 to 2007-10-07. Participants: Joakim Tjernlund, Pierre Habouzit, Alex Riesen.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10178

## Joakim Tjernlund, 2007-10-07 17:31

Subject: How to pick a commit from another git tree?
Message-ID: <000101c80907$d461a810$04ac10ac@Jocke>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/000101c80907%24d461a810%2404ac10ac%40Jocke

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Hi 

This is probably a somewhat stupid question but I havn't had a need until now so here goes:
There is a commit in David Millers tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/bak-net-2.6.24.git;a=commit;h=bbb4c0c35a4c2aed5e025b668c8dfc99c5b74cff
that hasn't made it into 2.6.23, but will go into 2.6.24. 
I need this fix on top of 2.6.23(once it is released).
Now I wonder how to best add this fix to my tree. Once this fix hits linus tree and I pull
linus tree, I don't wan't a conflict as I already have this fix in my tree.

Should I just pull Davids tree? Or should I cherry-pick this one commit?
Or something else?

 Jocke

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## Pierre Habouzit, 2007-10-07 17:50

Subject: Re: How to pick a commit from another git tree?
Message-ID: <20071007175013.GH10024@artemis.corp>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071007175013.GH10024%40artemis.corp
In-Reply-To: <000101c80907$d461a810$04ac10ac@Jocke>

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On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 05:31:00PM +0000, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> This is probably a somewhat stupid question but I havn't had a need until now so here goes:
> There is a commit in David Millers tree:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/bak-net-2.6.24.git;a=commit;h=bbb4c0c35a4c2aed5e025b668c8dfc99c5b74cff
> that hasn't made it into 2.6.23, but will go into 2.6.24. 
> I need this fix on top of 2.6.23(once it is released).
> Now I wonder how to best add this fix to my tree. Once this fix hits linus tree and I pull
> linus tree, I don't wan't a conflict as I already have this fix in my tree.
> 
> Should I just pull Davids tree? Or should I cherry-pick this one commit?
> Or something else?

  The easiest way is to fetch his tree (git remote add ...; git fetch)
and then yes, cherry-pick the commit(s) you need.

  If you need more than one commit, you can use:

  git rebase --onto <your tip> fromCommit toCommit

  and it will move ]fromCommit..toCommit] onto <your tip>

  It's likely that the fetch will be quite cheap as I suppose that David
Millers tree as very few objects different from linus tree (compared to
the linux2.6 git repository size I mean).
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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## Alex Riesen, 2007-10-07 20:10

Subject: Re: How to pick a commit from another git tree?
Message-ID: <20071007201048.GA2765@steel.home>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071007201048.GA2765%40steel.home
In-Reply-To: <000101c80907$d461a810$04ac10ac@Jocke>

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Joakim Tjernlund, Sun, Oct 07, 2007 19:31:00 +0200:
> This is probably a somewhat stupid question but I havn't had a need until now so here goes:
> There is a commit in David Millers tree:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/bak-net-2.6.24.git;a=commit;h=bbb4c0c35a4c2aed5e025b668c8dfc99c5b74cff
> that hasn't made it into 2.6.23, but will go into 2.6.24. 
> I need this fix on top of 2.6.23(once it is released).

$ git fetch git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/bak-net-2.6.24.git
$ git cherry-pick bbb4c0c35a4c2aed5e025b668c8dfc99c5b74cff

> Now I wonder how to best add this fix to my tree. Once this fix hits linus tree and I pull
> linus tree, I don't wan't a conflict as I already have this fix in my tree.

Depending on the state the Davids tree ends up when it is merge into
Linus' tree you may or may not get a conflict. It is not in your hands
either way.

> Should I just pull Davids tree? Or should I cherry-pick this one commit?
> Or something else?

I would just cherry-pick it, and revert it (or hard-reset my tree to
Linus' tree) if it conflicts later.

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