Apply a commit chunk by chunk

Question

When I add a file to staging, I can

$ git add my_file -p

And select the chunks I want to stage.

Is there a way to merge/cherry-pick a commit and apply its diff chunk by chunk?

Thanks

Answer 1

I'm not aware of a direct way to do this but here's an indirect way.

git cherry-pick -n <commit>

Cherry pick the commit but tell git not to commit it (-n). The changes should now be in your working copy so you can do

git checkout -p

This will iterate over each chunk and ask if you want to discard it, say yes to any chunks you don't want and no to chunks you want to keep.