[IPython-dev] Merging only 1 commit from branch to trunk

[Ville M. Vainio]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg.net at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a branch that I am doing a lot of work on.  I just fixed the %debug
> magic in that branch and
> would like to merge that to trunk.  But the rest of my branch is not ready
> for merging.
>
> Are there any bzr experts here who know the best way of doing this?

http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/index.html#cherrypicking

However, as a general DVCS rule, bugfixes should usually be done first
at the oldest branch that will receive the bufig - often this is the
"old release maintenance" branch. Then, it can be merged to trunk
cleanly (as old branches should always be in a state where they have
been merged to trunk),

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