Comments on: Using Git to pull in a patch from a single commit

By: Zeno Davatz

Zeno Davatz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:40:11 +0000

Thank you Sir! for this information! That would be great if one could add that to the man page (if you have any connections to the people who are writing it).

I done exactly as advised and added the remote and then just done a pull and not a fetch. But if I wanted to be more cautious I could have done a “git fetch” and then a “git cherry pick”.

A git-cherry-pick with SSH capabilities would also be very nice.

Best
Zeno

By: long

long — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:39:22 +0000

You still have to pull in the remote commit information using

# Add remote if you haven’t already
git remote add [remote nickname] [remote URL]
# Fetch branches and commits from the remote
git fetch [remote nickname]

If the remote machine doesn’t have remote read-only access to its repositories configured via git-daemon, gitosis, ssh or http, you’ll have to go through the process of pushing that remote machine’s changes up to somewhere that does (like GitHub). You’ll then use that place as the specified remote.

Once you have the commit information has been saved locally, you can run

git cherry-pick [commit]

By: Zeno Davatz

Zeno Davatz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:07:51 +0000

Ok, this is great, but I have one question: How do I cherry-Pick from another machine on the other side of the world? Is there a “git cherry-pick ssh” option? I could not find one so far.

Thank you for your Feedback.

Best
Zeno