From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Cc: "Sugiarto, Titania" <titania.sugiarto@rwth-aachen.de>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Feature that allows the user to merge only specific files/folders from another branch
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:56:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1pi88p3c.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b743b7fe-5f5a-4906-9ea6-0755acf5875d@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:44:31 +0100")
"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026, at 14:44, Sugiarto, Titania wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a suggestion for Git, which includes a feature that allows the
>> user to merge (I want to highlight merge here, not replace) specific
>> files/folders from another branch.
>> I feel like a lot of users have spoken about this online but up until
>> now, there hasn't been an update regarding such feature.
>>
>> Might be worthwhile to consider?
>
> Why?
Because many people talked about it?
Yes, I know that an idea is not necessarily a good one only because
many talk about it ;-)
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2026-02-24 13:44 ` Feature that allows the user to merge only specific files/folders from another branch Sugiarto, Titania
2026-02-24 19:21 ` Thomas Guyot
2026-02-24 22:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-02-24 22:44 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-02-25 21:56 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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