Selectively restoring changes from another branch or commit

Today I learned that you can use the --patch parameter with several git commands.

The --patch parameter is probably most known for interactively staging changes from the cli, but I’ve never really used it because I find GUI clients are much more convenient for this.

But apparently you can also use it with restore/checkout to grab specific changes from another branch.

git restore --source=branch-name --patch

This is something I haven’t seen easily done in any git client.

See Tekin’s post it for more details and other uses.