Github: Pull some commits from fork into original project

Question

I, user1 , have a project at github. Another user2 created a fork and made three commits: A B and C .

I want to merge only commits A and B back into my project.

How to do it, that I could keep the history in github's network graph?

Answer 1

You can add a remote reference to the fork, create a branch on B, and merge that branch (in, for instance, master ):

git remote add fork /url/of/fork
git fetch --all
git branch tmp fork/B
git checkout master
git merge tmp

I find the merge cleaner than using git cherry-pick .

The OP Michał Sałaban preferred (in the comments ) create the branch with:

git checkout B 
git branch tmp 

Answer 2

I suggest to use github pull request.

GIthub pull request help: https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests

How?

simple:

open a new branch from your current state

git checkout "COMMIT_B_ID"

this will result in detached HEAD

now create a new named branch

git checkout "MY_B_BRANCH"
git push origin MY_B_BRANCH

now github contains new branch with your changes. Go to github and open a pull reauest to merge the new branch with the master

This way (Pull requsest) you can see and verfiy that this is exactly what needs to be commited.

Godd Luck.