Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> On 2009-02-06, Bisani, Alok <alok.bisani <at> credit-suisse.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to pull in changes from a branch but only limited
> > to a file/files? I ended up doing a manual restore using git-cat-file
> ><branch>@{0}:/file. And checked in.
>
> git checkout branch -- filename
>
>
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I wonder why it is the
checkout command which does this, rather than the pull/merge. What is the reason
that we cannot pull/merge a specific file from a branch?
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