Re: How can I merge some files rather than all files modified on one branch to my branch?

[Emily Ren <lingyan.ren@gmail.com>]

Junio and Boyd,

Thank you very much for your kindly guide ! I'll try these method.

Boyd,
How to rewrite the history of the branch ?

Thanks,
Emily

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> On Monday 02 March 2009 03:19:05 Emily Ren wrote:
>> I want to merge some files rather than all files modified on one
>> branch to my branch, how can I do?
>
> In addition to what Junio suggested, I'll offer another method, assuming the
> branch you are merging from is not yet published:
> (1) Rewrite the history of the to-be-merged branch so that all the changes to
> the files you want occur "before" and in separate commits from the file you
> want to ignore.  So the current tree:
>
> A-->B-->C (yours)
>  \
>  ->D-->E (theirs)
>
> becomes:
>
> A-->B-->C (yours)
>  \
>  ->D1-->E1-->D2-->E2 (theirs)
>
> with D1 and D2 being the separate parts of commit D and similarly for E1 and
> E2.
>
> (2) Merge in the rewritten history, but only the part that you want, giving:
>
> A-->B-->C--->F (yours)
>  \         /
>  ->D1-->E1-->D2-->E2 (theirs)
>
> This preserves the full intent of what you are trying to do, a partial merge.
> If you merge "theirs" in fully at some point in the future, you shouldn't see
> any conflicts arising from not recording the merge or missing changes arising
> from recording a full merge that did not happen.
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