Question

How do pick only one commit from a branch on a remote repository and merge it to the current branch on my local repository?

I looked around on google, and I found git cherry-pick. But this seems to be for doing this only across branches in the same repository.

Answer 1

Fetch the other repo:

git fetch http://github.com/otherguy/forkedproject.git

That downloads all the history from that repo, but without changing HEAD or your staging area.

Then, cherry-pick the commit.