Question

I am maintaining a repository A.

Another contributor has cloned A to another repository B.

Later, the other contributor added files F, which is irrelevant to me, into B.

Now I want to merge changes in B back to A, but without committing F. How to do so?

Answer 1

Fetch the head and cherry-pick from there.

git remote add jessica git://jessica.com/repo.git
git fetch jessica master
git cherry-pick 235a5
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