git cherry-pick or merge specific directory from another branch

Question

I\'ve seen different posts on StackOverflow that explain cherry picking a bit, but the comments in their code aren\'t very specific as to what\'s a branch and what\'s a dire

Answer 1

You can use git checkout -- .
I'd do this: git checkout dev -- tools/my-tool

Explanation: this tells git to replace/copy files from the branch dev and the path tools/my-tool to your current branch.