Re: [boost] merging the super-project

Subject: Re: [boost] merging the super-project
From: Eric Niebler (eniebler_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-16 20:36:39

On 07/16/2014 05:08 PM, Niall Douglas wrote:
> On 16 Jul 2014 at 9:32, Eric Niebler wrote:
> 
>> I recently made a tweak to the .gitignore of the super-project on the
>> develop branch. How do I merge that to master? The two branches have
>> different histories, so a regular git merge balks. And when I checkout
>> master (thinking I'll just cherry-pick), I end up with a slew of local
>> changes (which I haven't made).
> 
> I think you check out the destination branch, then do
> 
> git checkout <src branch> <paths>
> git commit
> 
> He'll copy of all the necessary history for that file and merge it 
> with the local history. Check the log to be sure. Push as normal 
> after.

Why is that better than cherry-picking the commit? Seems likely to lose
data, e.g. if there are other differences to the file on the two branches.