On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:27:10AM +0000, Jaromil wrote:
> its sort of ready now, but as "I'm eating my own dogfood" (tm) I already
> notice the staging workflow can be made better by creating different git
> repositories for new versions of the same source, rather than different
> branches. This because one can simply copy files between different repos
> if they need to be merged, while with the branch approach the unit for
> merging are commits and to have files out of them the commits must be
> rebased and split (rather painful).

You can use:
$ git checkout <tree-ish> -- <file1> ...

(tree-ish can be a branch name, hash, tag, or any other reference form
git understands).
With the version of git in Jessie, this will checkout the files specified
and add them to the stage.

HTH,
Isaac Dunham