Re: merging question

From: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Date: 2006-01-31 06:14:24
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:23:15PM +0000, Ian Molton wrote:
> Is it possible to merge all the changes up to a specific tagged version 
> of another branch ?
> 
> I'd like to pull all the changes up to 2.6.15 into a branch created from 
> 2.6.12, which has been subsequently modified. I dont yet want to pull 
> later changes in.

This is what I tried to do, and it seems to work:

git checkout -b mywork v2.6.12
# work, work, work
git commit -a
git merge "Merging happily." mywork v2.6.15

The man pages can explain it better than I can.

> on a side note, how does one pull in an individual changeset, rather 
> than the head of an entire branch ?

Look into git-cherry and git-cherry-pick.

Regards,

Peter
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