Create and Apply Git Patches
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Overview
Patches can be created with git format-patch
and applied with git am
or git apply
.
Create the Patch
Specify how many commits from head to include in the patch:
git format-patch -<n> <reference-sha-1> --stdout > ./file.patch
git format-patch -1 HEAD --stdout > ./file.patch
Apply the Patch
git am < ./file.patch