On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 00:29:00 (-0500) Daniel Barkalow writes: >On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > >> I have a long-running topic branch. I have fixed a few nits on >> the master branch that I would like on the topic branch. How do I >> pull in only a few files from the head of the master branch? > >You don't pull in a few files, you apply the changes made in a few >commits: > > git diff HEX_OF_NIT_FIX^ HEX_OF_NIT_FIX | git apply >... Good technique. Thank you for sharing. I had been thinking about trying something along the lines of Junio's "Separating topic branches" posted on the "GIT Howto Index" page. I may have tried that had I been braver. I probably should have thought ahead and made this fix on a branch, merged it into my master branch and then into my topic branch ... I think. Bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html