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Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:56:08 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" Cc: "Sugiarto, Titania" , "git@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Feature that allows the user to merge only specific files/folders from another branch In-Reply-To: (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:44:31 +0100") References: <532e9d58b905404fa625aa59104ce8f5@rwth-aachen.de> <14775be9ed944bf684c3696e1a10f44d@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:56:07 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" 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 ;-)