creating a patch file from git

I’m a huge fan of the oldschool “patch” command, and sometimes in the wild I use Gitorious’ “raw diff” view which puts the changes in easy to read patch format. However, you can also do this on the command line to create a patch file that can be applied using “patch -p0 < patchfile".

git diff –no-prefix > patchfile

When you want to apply the patch to your old local copy:

patch -p0 < patchfile

Or, if you have an existing “git diff” patch file that was created without the “–no-prefix” option, you can apply that patch and ignore the default a/ b/ source prefixes with:

patch -p1 < patchfile

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